Just this week, a Brandwatch study revealed that Boston’s Twitter community was the third unhappiest in the country. After getting barraged by snowstorm after snowstorm (with another one on the way…) as well as residual MBTA woes, the dismal ranking doesn’t come as that much of a surprise.

And today, another Twitter study, this time performed by the social media platform, provides us with new insight on how people in Massachusetts are tweeting. In honor of Valentine’s Day, Twitter created an interactive “United States of Love” map, based on which states are tweeting the mushy stuff, and which states are anti-Valentine’s Day. And while Mass. proved less grumpy this time around, we’re still not lighting up Twitter with any love-struck tweets, either.

To determine the ranking, Twitter counted all the tweets per million people that said the words “love” or “loved” since 2006. Massachusetts fell right in the middle of the pack at number 23 with a total of 54,118 tweets with the words, proving our love for showing our love on social media is lukewarm, at best. This is the first time Twitter ran this type of study, so we can’t look back at last year’s rankings to find out if Massachusetts fell a few notches after this winter has turned our collective hearts cold and black. Valentine’s Day might very well be canceled by another blizzard and an inoperative MBTA; can you blame us?

Down in Kentucky, however, the Southerners are heating things up in Twitter. The state took the number one spot with 64,938 tweets, followed by Tennessee and Nebraska. At the bottom of the list was D.C. with 35,073 tweets, proving politics are a heartless game, followed by Louisiana and Maryland.

Twitter also analyzed the lovey tweets to see what relationship and dating trends were recurring most often at different times of year. This is what the platform found:

  • January:
    • First date/#firstdate
    • Friend zone / #FriendZone
  • March:
    • #breakup/#justbrokeup
  • July:
    • Just married / #justmarried
  • August: 
    • Engaged / #engaged
    • Online dating / #onlinedating
  • December: Divorced / #divorced

Check out the complete ranking of love-obsessed Twitter states below, and happy tweeting this V-Day!

Region, Tweets/million

1.       Kentucky, 64938

2.       Tennessee, 62267

3.       Nebraska, 62004

4.       North Dakota, 61297

5.       Oklahoma, 61241

6.       Maine, 60365

7.       Utah, 59937

8.       West Virginia, 59708

9.       Arkansas, 59253

10.   Idaho, 58797

11.   Rhode Island, 58247

12.   New Hampshire, 57870

13.   New Mexico, 56506

14.   Vermont, 56276

15.   Wyoming, 56228

16.   South Dakota, 55581

17.   Oregon, 55553

18.   Hawaii, 55375

19.   Colorado, 54965

20.   Washington, 54897

21.   Missouri, 54710

22.   Alabama, 54530

23.   Massachusetts, 54118

24.   Iowa, 53857

25.   Alaska, 53669

26.   Montana, 53496

27.   Indiana, 53464

28.   Arizona, 53172

29.   Minnesota, 52888

30.   Connecticut, 52699

31.   Ohio, 52484

32.   North Carolina, 51675

33.   Wisconsin, 51608

34.   New Jersey, 51364

35.   Kansas, 51360

36.   South Carolina, 50114

37.   Texas, 50085

38.   California, 50069

39.   Pennsylvania, 49306

40.   Illinois, 48799

41.   Virginia, 48574

42.   New York, 48209

43.   Mississippi, 47861

44.   Delaware, 47389

45.   Florida, 46737

46.   Michigan, 46395

47.   Nevada, 45822

48.   Georgia, 45423

49.   Maryland. 43657

50.   Louisiana, 39613

51.   District of Columbia, 35073

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