Birds on the Brain

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knit-wit:

theatlantic:

How America Swears: Here’s a Map That Tracks Twitter Profanity

We know, at this point, how the nation tweets. But what about how the nation swears? 

The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets posted from across 462 specific locations in the U.S. The team then isolated particular phrases from those tweets — one of those phrases being, yep, “fuck you,” which they tracked between July 14 and July 24, 2012. They then created a dynamic heatmap that portrays the density of the F-bomb-laden tweets as they were distributed geographically throughout each day of their date range, measured once per hour.

Read more. [Image: Vertaline]

Olympia, look at yourself…you lit up the PNW with your F-bombs.  You are well on your way to becoming a true metropolis!

Oh, sorry about that.

I’m curious about the big red dot that emerges over Toronto and Buffalo in the animated version.