Reasons to be cheerful: Find out why Shrewsbury has been named the happiest place in England
Shrewsbury has been named the happiest place in England - based on emojis used in tweets.
Researchers at social intelligence company Brandwatch analysed six billion tweets published on Twitter worldwide over the last two years, all of which contained emojis.
When they split the emojis into positive and negative emotions they found that Shrewsbury scored 82.55 per cent positive - the highest in England.
Shrewsbury joins Barcelona, Moscow and Turin as the most positive places in their respective countries.
The happiest place on the whole planet is Chennai in India - which scored 93.08% positive on emojis.
However, the USA is very negative. The top 20 most negative cities in the world are all in the US.
See more at brandwatch.com/blog/react-happiest-places-on-earth
