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Right now it only tracks the actual string "fuck", if you check out the code on gh, https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb , by changing line 67 of coffeeApp.coffee, "stream = Twitter.stream 'statuses/filter', {track:'fuck'}" , you could track anything you wanted.

Cool, wanted to find out if it was possible to track anything, specifically I wanted to know if the C-bomb was more common in UK and Australia :)

If would be nice if it was possible to change the tracked word directly from the interface (or maybe some service like this already exists).

I'm actually planning on writing this since the change would be trivial. But that also makes it less appealing to do haha. I will see when I can get it done.

could be a powerful tool with hints of what's most popular on twitter atm. then people can track real time events

So a step further, you could add a user input feature and let people track any word they want.

It's actually on my to-do list, tweetmap.co , it just got pushed to the back burner for the moment due to school.

I was surprised there aren't a lot more F bombs being dropped.

Also, here is a nice nugget of wisdom from Nigeria: "Fuck, don't give a fuck, don't get fucked over. 3 rules of life."

That's a gem. It filters on tweets having some sort of geographic information on them. Without that filter there are multitudes more.

https://dev.twitter.com/terms/geo-developer-guidelines

I think it only shows the tweets with locations turned on.

That is correct, it uses both the coordinates and places fields (see more about those here https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets ). There were actually substantially less before adding the code to handle "place". Most tweets that are tagged with a place and not specific coordinates use a bounding box which I've handled by just dropping the pin in the middle of the box.

And this one from France: "@TimotheDcI : Fuck Louis XIV, Louis XVI , Paix a Louis Vuitton !"

Surprised to see no f-bombs being dropped in Australia, it's a little quiet here, a little too quiet. Interesingly, seems a lot of people in the UK love to drop the f-bomb themselves, this is a little gem I discovered:

"I'm not an asshole I just don't give a fuck a lot"

Neat idea, I made something similar that generated fortune cookie messages based on Tweets, it wasn't as nice as your idea and execution, nice one.

You guys might fare better if there was a c-bomb tracker.

You might not be aware but that's actually a lyric from a song called AssMilk by Odd Future: http://rapgenius.com/Tyler-the-creator-assmilk-lyrics#note-7...

One of my personal favorites from OF

I think it is a little bit odd to create a page that shows every fuck-word it can find in the world, call it "fbomb", having an About page whereby one only talks about the "F word" and "F-Bombs" while trying very hard not to type the word fuck.

Seems a kinda hypocrite to me. "Look someone said fuck in <country> haha, but I don't use that word, nono, not the F-word." I really dislike the term f-word. Say fuck if you want, say nothing if you don't want.

But, yes, funny idea.

I don't see where the hypocrisy is in creating an application that maps the location of tweets with the "F-word" and then not writing the word "fuck" anywhere. It isn't the intention to advocate cursing. The goal of the application for me was to work in a new framework/language set on something that some people may find entertaining. Writing fuck on the about page or not doesn't really change the message, I didn't intentionally do either it just isn't the vernacular I use to write about my development work.

Cool, seems like it's based on this demo: https://github.com/maachou/TweetMapViewer

I hacked together a little twitter following thing using that as a guide this weekend (http://myemotions.herokuapp.com)

Thats pretty cool actually, but I hand't seen that before. I did this all on my own.

Perhaps doomed to the same plight as most of these kinds of visualizations (wherein it becomes more of a population density chart than something with which one can cull any sort of actually useful information)?

In it's current implementation, where it has no persistent data, I would 100% agree, however if you added a data store for it I'm sure that there are analytics you could implement that might be useful.

You might try out http://mapd.csail.mit.edu - it uses GPUs to run the queries in real time - there are 80 million tweets now but we're doing a billion for a demo with Nvidia. Here is a link to a heatmap of the f-bomb with a bar chart of the states that say it the most (by % of total words). http://mapd.it/19uTSVG

I mean this is neat but why not try histogramming the results over a really long period of time? A fuck-field if you will. That will contain much more information.

Fair warning: This is more addicting than it ought to be. Avoid unless procrastination is your goal.

I've seen this a few times, pardon my naivety, whats a c-bomb?

So its basically a map of who's using Twitter, lol nice.

The mushroom clouds add an element of dark humor.

It reminds me of C&C

Brilliant. But does it just work for English?

Stops after the first one for me...

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I'll check it out. :)

Fucking Brits. Fucking Americans.

Fuck yeah.

Awesome work!

I wants to know about the CBomb

Australia would be swamped :)

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