Emoji study reveals…something, kinda, about Missouri and Kansas

Swiftkey, a smart keyboard app that, according to its iTunes product description, “learns your writing style to give you super-accurate autocorrect and intelligent next-word prediction, reducing keystrokes and getting smarter over time,” recently analyzed over 1 billion emoji users sent through its app. Today, it released a state-by-state report on which states use which emoji more than others. 

A few things worth noting here. This study measures emojis only sent through Swiftkey, so even though 1 billion emoji sounds like a healthy sample size, it doesn’t include the default iPhone emoji app that most people use. Also, this study only exists so that you will learn what Swiftkey is and download it to your phone. It’s content marketing — an advertisement cloaked as a study. But as an avid user of emoji, I was interested enough to click on it, and so maybe you might be, too. 

Without further ado, Missouri uses the following emoji more than any other state:

Personally, I use that peace sign a lot. And the baseball one, sure: Go, Royals. Scissors? I guess we have a lot of hair salons here.

Kansas uses the following emoji more than any other state: 
Top left is a honeypot. Then a tree, a camera, a love letter and, after some Googling, the Scorpio astrological sign, which I was not aware was even on the emoji keyboard. Maybe there are a lot of people born between October 23 and November 21 in the Sunflower State. 

Check out the whole study here.