Hey Maryland, you have some sad tweets...

[Bay_Kat]

Really? They did a study on this?

(CNN) -- If you're sick of cheerful, happy people, it might be wise to avoid Hawaii or Napa, California. They were found to be the United States' happiest state and city, respectively, in a recent study of geotagged tweets.

Researchers at the University of Vermont sifted through more than 10 million geotagged tweets from 2011 to map out the moods of Americans in urban areas. They ranked the locations based on frequency of positive and negative words using the Mechanical Turk Language Assessment word list.

The list includes 10,000 words that have been rated on a scale 1 to 10 according to how "happy" they are. On the lower end of the scale are negative words such as mad, hate, no, boo, smoke and jail, as well as a colorful and thorough assortment of expletives.

The happiest and saddest states according to Twitter - CNN.com

 

[Lurk]

Why in Hell are people in Maine so happy? Must be the low population density and overwhelming concentration of Chamber of Commerce tweeters.

 

[slotpuppy]

I am proud to say I have never sent or recived a tweet.

 

[oldman]

Why in Hell are people in Maine so happy? Must be the low population density and overwhelming concentration of Chamber of Commerce tweeters.

Us in Maine are so happy because we're not in Maryland no more!

 

[thesilentwoman]

Why in Hell are people in Maine so happy? Must be the low population density and overwhelming concentration of Chamber of Commerce tweeters.

Tweeting in Maine requires some ability to connnect to a signal, thusly only folks in the Greater Portland/Augusta/parts of Bangor can Tweet with any success...And they are all the Foodies, Rusticators, Flatlanders and Twonks who voted Yes on One...No REAL Mainer gives a rat's a** about the Internet, a smart phone, a Foodie, a Rusticator, a Flatlander or a Tweeting Twonk...Ayah and b'God...