The Happiest Country on Twitter is… [Infographic]

If you looked at tweets from every country with a big presence on Twitter, which one do you think would be tweeting the most positive sentiment? Hint: it’s a European country, and it’s probably not what you’d expect.

Created by PhD student Alex Davies, the Twitter World Happiness Map ranks each country in terms of the number of “happy words” and “sad words” they tweet. Davies sampled an unspecified number of tweets from each country on the map, and used the number of happy and sad words to calculate just how happy the tweeting populace of each is.

And the number one, happiest country on Twitter? Germany.

Germany is the happiest country on Twitter, constantly using words like “feliz”, “happy” and “love”, as well as sentiments like 🙂 and ^_^ in their tweets.

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