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Laughter is a social thing, but not all of us laugh equally.
Laughter happens when the brain okays your hormones to get your chest muscles to pump that rib cage.
What your brain finds laughable depends on your personality and your cultural background.
Online, these differences are magnified as social media users choose when to signal their laughter.
Over in Europe, Moldova laughs the least online, with only 14.80 tweets per 1,000 containing laughter.
Whether making jokes about each other on the site formerly known as Twitter would work is not known.
If you see two people laughing at a joke you didnt hear, you may laugh anyway.
Theres a real imitative aspect of it thats been demonstrated.
There are overlapping areas for laughing and seeing laughter.
This data analysis was completed in May 2024.
Locations with fewer than 2,000 tweets in the sample were filtered out.
Check out the results:
