Twitter Records Over 47 million Tweets in Relation to Ramadan

In 2022, Twitter recorded over 47 million tweets during Ramadan, a 31% year-on-year increase from last year, reflecting Twitter’s role as the place to discover what is happening in real time. As people celebrated the holy month, trending conversations on the platform centered on faith, spirituality, food, and entertainment. Here are some of this year’s highlights from the month of Ramadan:

The top countries within the MENA region discussing Ramadan were:

Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Oman

The symbol used to send salutations upon the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) ﷺ was tweeted almost four million times, while Top Ramadan-related emojis included:

(A crescent moon)
(Folded hands )
(mosque)
(Palms held up together)

Top Ramadan hashtags tweeted at a global level included:

رمضان# (Ramadan)
#Ramadan
افطار# (Iftar)
#العشر_الاواخر (Last 10 days of Ramadan)

To celebrate Ramadan, Twitter launched three hashtag-triggered emojis across seven languages: English, Arabic, Malay, Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, and Spanish. The following Arabic and English hashtags unlock a crescent moon:

رمضان#
رمضان_كريم#
رمضان_مبارك#
#Ramadan
#RamadanKareem
#RamadanMubarak

The second emoji, a lantern, is unlocked with the below hashtags:

#فانوس
#فانوس_رمضان
#فوانيس_رمضان
#فوانيس
#RamadanLanterns
#RamadanLantern

As for the last emoji, the following hashtags unlock a bowl of dates and a glass of laban:

#افطار_رمضان
#افطار
#إفطاراً_شهياً
#إفطار_رمضان
#إفطار
#فطور_رمضان
#فطور
#سحور
#سحور_رمضان
IftarRamadan#
#Iftar
#Suhur
#SuhurRamadan
#Suhoor
#Sahur
#Suhour