In life you either cry, laugh, love or succumb to raging nationalism.
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Or, in case of Japan, sparkle
and whatever the Kuwaitis think the pin 📍 emoji means
I believe that's a stop sign.
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Well they did get their data from geotagged tweets, which I imagine skews the results just a bit towards nationalism.
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Poland's most used emoji being Ukrainian flag is kinda hilarious.
🇵🇱🇺🇦♥️
not really, lots of family across these borders
Data was likely sourced during the war, and Poland is one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine (in part because they fear they might be next)
Shout out to all the tiny islands who apparently do nothing but send their own flag to each other all day. We see you lite buddies.
I don't think I have ever sent a flag. So it's wild to me.
Japan has the only semi-interesting one.
What we really want to know is which country has the most use of the eggplant emoji 🍆
Antarctica: 🥶
It's also the cry-laugh emoji but the tears froze on the face.
I want to know why Trinidad, indonesia, Uruguay and Chile have 🤣 where as most of the world does 😂
An incredibly well-done graphic, very easy to understand and flows nicely. I wonder why Saudi Arabia has more use of white hearts specifically.
Iirc sending red heart to girls is offensive in saudi
Damn Poland okay
Hope Antigua and Barbuda is alright...
😂 is the most used emoji in England, Wales, and Scotland. In Northern Ireland it's ♥️ yet this is also the most used in the UK. So either the data is wrong or Northern Ireland is pumping those numbers UP.
Or ❤️ is a close second in all countries
It could be Simpsons paradox!
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This might be one of the worst designed maps I have ever seen...
Rip france 🗿
How'd they find out the north Korea one?
This graph was made from geotagged tweets.
Presumably that's why the flags are so popular as well, I doubt Belgians are sending Belgian flags to one another in the DM's. Or maybe they do, I wouldn't know.
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Reminder that "national boundaries with mercator projection" maps are, while on the surface interesting, on a meaningful enough level are less useful due to sheer degree of variance. Small (sized) countries get buried to thr point of not being visible, while large (populated) countries get over-generalised to the point of meaninglessness.
looks like (of course there are exceptions to these observations): those with a laughing face live in a media landscape mostly dominated by the people, those with praying hands, are places where mostly the theocracy have the phones, hearts mean the government has the mainhand in this and are trying to deflect of some shit, and finally, no fucking clue what the fuck japan is doing... but i dont want to go to antigua and barbuda, pray laos is allright and hope kuwait finds its place
Japan is just sparkling. it's normal there.
How does the UK have the ❤️ but only northern island had it and the rest of the uk was 😂.
it's an example of simpson's paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart ❤️ 49% and use tears of joy 😂 at 51%, and then northern ireland was to use heart ❤️at 100%, you can imagine this would tip the whole uk over
even more freaky, you could make all 4 constituent countries use heart ❤️ at 49%, make each constituent use a different unique emoji 👍😀🥰😼 at 51% each, and then the aggregate would show that heart ❤️ is still the most used across the UK
now consider for each place on this map, they are ranking more than just 2 emojis. the map itself says that tears of joy 😂 is only scoring 5% worldwide, and that's 1st place. with margins of 5% and under to be deemed winner, it's no wonder funky effects show up
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Surprised that thumbs up isn’t the most popular somewhere 👍
Japan
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India and Nepal praying hands 🙏 were expected, Venezuela was not what I expected.
A bunch of countries just have their own flag as an emoji... The author barely managed to identify which emoji tourists use when posting about their trip on twitter.
the data is clearly fucked given the whole UK mess, and given it's all either small countries, authoritarian hellholes or both which have their country flag I'm inclined to believe it's a "no data" placeholder
I don't think twitter users in authoritarian hellholes are acting like NPCs going "Glory to Artsotzka" every five minutes.
It's tourism, coupled with low twitter use from the local population. Belgium has a bigger population than Belarus and unlike it isn't an authoritarian hellhole. But it's way more touristy. So Belgium has its own flag as the most used emoji but Belarus doesn't.
You can see this pattern pretty clearly in the ME as well. Jordan, Yemen, or Syria don't have their own flag as their most used emoji (despite being both small and undemocratic), because there ain't any tourists there. Qatar does. (A bit surprised about Cyprus though, do they use twitter a lot?)
The data is probably sound, but the methodology is insane.
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cool map but what is up with Kuwait?
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