Watching our favorite shows makes us π. That's according to new data from Twitter.
The microblogging network found that the most popular emoji in conversations about TV is the "face with tears of joy" character, which Oxford Dictionaries recently selected as 2015's "word of the year."
Twitter introduced emojis for the web version of its site in April 2014. Between then and July 2015, it tracked tens of millions of U.S. tweets about televised shows and analyzed how users deploy emojis in these conversations. It found that about 14 percent of all TV conversations contained at least one emoji, and that π appeared in 24 percent of all the tweets analyzed, across all television genres.
Here are some of the other popular emojis used in tweets about TV:
Twitter's study also found that tweets about music, drama and reality TV tend to feature emojis more than tweets about sports or news do. Interestingly, specific emojis appear more frequently in tweets about particular TV genres: 21 percent of the tweets about dramas contained emojis, and the most popular characters were π, π and π© ; and while 20 percent of tweets about reality shows had expressive glyphs, the most popular were π,π, orπ.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, tweets about sporting events were punctuated by ball-style emojis such as π or π.
Here's a breakdown of emoji tweets by genre:
