Twitter shares the love with 2.5 billion tweets a year

February 14, 2017

Love is in the air today, as couples celebrate the day of love. Twitter marks the special occasion with its new Valentine’s day stickers, enabling people to share the love in a fun way. The social media channel will also release Valentine’s day emojis, each time a user tweets the hashtag #LoveHappens.

Last year, did you know that the word ‘love’ was mentioned more than 2.5 billion times globally on Twitter! That’s proof that love is everywhere.

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Twitter has also kindly selected the most popular love hashtags this year, to kick start your lovely tweets. Yes, you guessed it. Love is the most popular hashtag; it really is that simple.

Emojis are all the rage this year with 92% of the online population using them several times a week. Lost for words? Twitter selects the most popular emoji’s relating to love in 2016 to help you tweet.

Join the celebration of love and share your favourite Valentine’s Day messages with stickers and the #LoveHappens hashtag to unlock the special emoji.

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