Multiple snowstorms. Epic MBTA fails. Boston is not feeling very happy, and can you blame us? The simple task of commuting to work has become a crapshoot: Will it or won’t it ruin your day?

And when we’re feeling this beleaguered, angry and annoyed, the natural response in the social media age is to take to Twitter to vent our frustrations. In fact, we at BostInno have dedicated an entire series to the #MBTA Tweets of the Week, in which we gather the best, most hilarious responses to the T’s struggles on Twitter, and in light of the more notable commuting disasters, there has been plenty of fodder for extra reaction roundups.

So, it comes as not much of a surprise that Boston ranked as the third least happy city based on its tweets, in a recent study done by Brandwatch, a social intelligence firm based in New York. The in-depth analysis performed by Brandwatch compared the ratio of positive conversations over negative conversations, surrounding topics like the quality of a day (“Today was the best day”) or the outlook on life (“I hate my life”) using social data and analytics. The study looked at how users express their emotions on Twitter, and broke down the results by gender, category and the conversations’ evolvement over time.

The study took international tweets into account, but only looked at conversations happening in English. Globally, the United States was the 14th least happy country tweeting in English, while Greenland was the happiest.

Regionally, in the United States, Brandwatch found that the South and West had the highest ratio of positive to negative to tweets. The Northeast and Midwest had the lowest. (Might winter weather have anything to do with that?)

By state, Georgia, Colorado and South Carolina were the happiest on Twitter; Delaware, West Virginia and Iowa were the least happy. Massachusetts landed in the 11th least happy spot. Brandwatch then looked at 30 cities with high populations to break it down by city, and Boston ranked as the third least happy city, with only Louisville and Fort Worth coming in ahead of it. Denver, Los Angeles and Nashville were the happiest. (Any guesses as ti what makes Denver’s tweets so happy?)

Other notable takeaways from the study? Men are more likely to share positive tweets overall than women, and tweet more based on their day, while women are more likely to tweet negatively about their overall lives. Women have it hard, OK?

And this should come as a surprise to no one, but general positivity across the board on Twitter is at its lowest during the week, ticks up on Fridays, and reaches its peak on the weekends. The consensus? Work sucks.

So remember Boston, even amidst train delays and more snow – seriously, more snow – try to tweet positive.

To look at the full Twitter Happiness Report, click here.

Images via Shutterstock, Brandwatch