SINGAPORE, Feb 14 — Just how vocal are Singaporeans when it comes to expressing affection? Pretty vocal it seems, at least in cyberspace.

Surprise, surprise: A ranking released by Twitter yesterday ranked Singapore as second in the Asia-Pacific region in saying “I love you” on the social networking site, just after Thailand.

Globally though, Singapore fairs less well on the affectionate scale — it ranked 27th, while Thailand ranked 15th.

Here is an interactive map showing countries ranked by tweets mentioning “I love you” in over 100 different languages.

Among Asia-Pacific countries, Philippines, Malaysia and South Korea were ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively. Countries were ranked by tweets per million population in each place.

Worldwide, Sweden, Slovenia, Israel, United Arab Emirates and Norway were in the top five, while the United States and United Kingdom were placed at the bottom of the list at the 50th and 51st place respectively.

And just in which months are people most likely to get engaged or to break up?

According to Twitter, July is a month for marriages and August for engagements. March is when break-ups are most likely to occur.

Based on the tweets posted by users, Twitter put together a “calendar” of when people are most likely to experience certain significant moments such as marriage and divorce. — TODAY