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Over 12 million Tweets related to love in Egypt

This Valentine’s Day, Twitter launched #LoveHappens to give people more power to express #Love and connect with others. Twitter is the place to see love unfolding around the world, to express love as events happen, share love in the face of adversity, to find love and share love for the people who make a difference in our lives.

In the Egypt alone there were 12.3 million Tweets for the word love (4.7mn for ‘Love’ and 7.6mn for حب، الحب). Globally, people Tweeted the word “love” more than 2.5 billion times over the last year. When you want to share love on Twitter, you have endless hashtags and emojis to choose from. This Valentine’s Day, we took a look at the Tweets that attracted the most ❤️ ‘s in Egypt on Twitter so far this year:

When retired Egyptian football player, Mohamed Abutrika (@trikaofficial), thanked the national team for their great efforts and encouraged them for their upcoming World Cup matches:

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AbouTrika/Twitter

Comedian Mohamed Henedy’s (@OfficialHenedy) Tweet about the three Egyptian celebrities (Amr Diab, El Hadary and himself) who do not age and continue to bring pride and joy to the country:

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Mohamed Henedy/Twitter
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Mona Zaki/Twitter

The top hashtags in Egypt about love were:

  1. (love)  الحب
  2. Love
  3. (I love you) بحبك
  4. (love) العشق
  5. (heart) القلب

Arabic love-related terms that were Tweeted globally include:

  1. الخير
  2. الصّداقة
  3. الإحترام
  4. الوفاء
  5. السّعادة

Globally, over the last year, people Tweeted the word “love” more than 2.5 billion times.

Globally, over the last year, people Tweeted the word “love” more than 2.5 billion times.
Source: Twitter

And sometimes, a picture tells a thousand words – and thankfully when it comes to love there are many emojis to choose from. These were the most popular love-themed emojis on Twitter in 2016:

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Source: Twitter

Join the celebration of love around the world this Valentine’s Day with stickers and #LoveHappens to unlock a special emoji.

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