People hate Roblox more than any other app in 21 countries
People hate Roblox more than any other app in 21 countries, according to a sentiment analysis study from a community-driven tutorial and tech review company called Electronics Hub.
The report comes as part of an attempt to understand differing opinions around the world regarding specific mobile apps. Although people worldwide collectively download more than 250 million apps daily, Electronic Hub noted satisfaction with mobile apps is on the decline. So, the company embarked on a mission to see what apps people around the world hated the most.
“We processed over 3 million geotagged tweets related to 87 social media, dating, mobile games, entertainment, cryptocurrency, and money transfer apps. We calculated the percentage of tweets about each app that were negative using the HuggingFace Sentiment Analysis tool, which identifies whether a tweet has positive, negative, or neutral sentiment,” according to Electronics Hub’s report.
Many brands and corporations use sentiment analysis tools to evaluate customer opinions regarding their own campaigns and content. They may also use such tools to analyse their competitors. However, this study sought to determine customer sentiment regarding each app, designating the app with the most negative sentiment to be the country’s most hated.
It found Roblox to be the most-hated app in the most countries, with a total of 21. Second-place Tinder garnered the most hate from only 19 countries.
However, this doesn’t necessarily mean the sandbox game is the most hated app in the world. That honour goes to the dating app Hinge, with 34.4% of all tweets about the app categorised as negative.
Unfortunately, the analysis doesn’t offer any specific insights about why so many countries might hate
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