It gets dropped without warning and can strike anywhere in the world, laying waste to rational arguments and leaving a trail of offended sensibilities in its wake.
But the linguistic threats posed by the F-bomb on Twitter pale in comparison to its entertainment value, according to a Canadian computer science student who has made it his mission to track the global prevalence of this word-based weapon on the social networking site.
Martin Gingras's fascination with the popular profanity prompted him to create fbomb.co, a website that tracks the use of the word in real time.
By combining features from two of the web's most widely used applications — Google Maps and Twitter — the site allows readers to observe where in the world F-bombs are falling and in exactly what context they are being used.
More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...tter-1.2438627
But the linguistic threats posed by the F-bomb on Twitter pale in comparison to its entertainment value, according to a Canadian computer science student who has made it his mission to track the global prevalence of this word-based weapon on the social networking site.
Martin Gingras's fascination with the popular profanity prompted him to create fbomb.co, a website that tracks the use of the word in real time.
By combining features from two of the web's most widely used applications — Google Maps and Twitter — the site allows readers to observe where in the world F-bombs are falling and in exactly what context they are being used.
More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...tter-1.2438627
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