The Most Talked About Celebrity Divorces, According to Twitter

It’s been a whirlwind of a decade for celebrity divorces, with some of Hollywood’s most loved couples going their separate ways and breaking the hearts of millions of fans in the process.

Platforms such as Twitter inform us about the news as soon as it breaks and allows fans to voice their opinion and essentially take sides. If the divorce becomes messy, the internet is the first to know.

With this in mind, the experts at WrightHassall.co.uk were intrigued to investigate which high profile celebrity divorce in the past decade has caused the biggest buzz on Twitter.

Equipped with a list of divorced A-listers from the last 10 years, Wright Hassall analysed the number of tweets that were specifically referring to the divorce between the couples. Wright Hassall used strict search filters to ensure only tweets about a particular couple’s divorce were included in the analysis.

The 10 most talked about celebrity divorces on Twitter:

	Divorced Couple	Number of Tweets	Celeb 1: Negative Tweets	Celeb 1: Positive Tweets	Celeb 1: Negative Tweets	Celeb 1: Positive Tweets
1	Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt	128,947	71%	29%	69%	31%
2	Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries	103,113	56%	43%	71%	29%
3	Katie Holmes & Tom Cruise	83,976	47%	53%	57%	43%
4	Kim Kardashian & Kanye West	78,424	71%	29%	75%	25%
5	Khloé Kardashian & Lamar Odom	70,969	66%	34%	63%	37%
6	Katy Perry & Russell Brand	58,709	65%	35%	62%	38%
7	Amber Heard & Johnny Depp	43,075	70%	30%	72%	28%
8	Demi Moore & Ashton Kutcher	37,547	72%	28%	74%	26%
9	Jennifer Garner & Ben Affleck	35,660	61%	39%	60%	40%
10	Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon	31,289	74%	26%	80%	20%

Out of the ex-couples analysed, WrightHassall.co.uk can exclusively reveal the divorce sparking the most conversation online is the divorce of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Formerly known as the ultimate power couple, Brangelina received a whopping 128,947 tweets surrounding their split.

According to the sentiment analysis carried out, Wright Hassall were able to anticipate fans sided with Pitt. 69% of the divorce tweets analysed about him were negative, in comparison to Jolie who received 71% of negative tweets.

In second place is the divorce of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries with a total of 103,113 tweets. Twitter seemingly sided with the reality star as Humphries received 71% of negative tweets towards him, with Kardashian only receiving 56%.

Placing third is the divorce of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise (83,976), seeing a fairly neutral response from Twitter with Holmes only receiving 47% of negative tweets about her and Cruise receiving 57%. Interestingly, both celebs received the lowest percentage of negative tweets of those analysed in the top 10.

In fourth is the rumoured divorce looming over Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. The split has received more than 78,000 tweets already, despite the news only breaking a few months ago.

Placing fifth is the youngest of the Kardashian sisters, Khloe, with her divorce to former NBA player Lamar Odom seeing 70,969 tweets.

The 10 celebrity divorces least talked about on Twitter:

	Divorced Couple	Number of Tweets	Celeb 1: Negative Tweets	Celeb 1: Positive Tweets	Celeb 1: Negative Tweets	Celeb 1: Positive Tweets
11	Kris Jenner & Caitlyn Jenner	25,053	77%	23%	83%	17%
12	Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin	11,957	65%	35%	62%	38%
13	Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth	5,961	70%	30%	57%	43%
14	Hilary Duff & Mike Comrie	5,169	62%	38%	68%	32%
15	Anna Faris & Chris Pratt	4,895	69%	31%	73%	27%
16	Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux	3,082	65%	35%	64%	36%
17	Jenna Dewan & Channing Tatum	2,945	69%	31%	77%	23%
18	Miranda Kerr & Orlando Bloom	2,106	12%	88%	20%	80%
19	Chrishell Stause & Justin Hartley	2,100	68%	32%	66%	34%
20	Grace Miguel & Usher	1,282	95%	5%	73%	27%

Rounding off the top 20 is the divorce of Usher and Grace Miguel that didn’t seem to catch much engagement on Twitter with only 1,282 tweets referencing the situation.

Fans seemed to side with Usher, who received 73% negative tweets, whereas Miguel faced a whopping 95%!