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Show HN: See where in the world the F-bomb is being dropped
- meggar 13y agoBrilliant. But does it just work for English?
- newsmaster 13y agoI wants to know about the CBomb
- wellboy 13y agoAustralia would be swamped :)
- ryanseys 13y agoAwesome work!
- mgingras 13y agoRight now it only tracks the actual string "fuck", if you check out the code on gh, https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb 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.
- kamjam 13y agoCool, 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).
- mgingras 13y agoI'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.
- huangc10 13y agocould be a powerful tool with hints of what's most popular on twitter atm. then people can track real time events
- speedyrev 13y agoSo a step further, you could add a user input feature and let people track any word they want.
- mgingras 13y agoIt's actually on my to-do list, tweetmap.co , it just got pushed to the back burner for the moment due to school.
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoStops after the first one for me...
- mgingras 13y agoWhat browser? Should keep going.
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoChrome 30 on Windows 7 Is JavaScript enabled? Yes Are Cookies enabled? Yes Is Flash installed? Flash 11.9 is installed Up to date Is Java installed? Java 7 (u17) is installed Out of date YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN: 1920x1080 32 bit DETECTED ADDONS: Microsoft Silverlight v5.1 Ad Blocker
- mgingras 13y agoI'll check it out. :)
- dclowd9901 13y agoPerhaps 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)?
- mgingras 13y agoIn 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.
- tmostak 13y agoYou might try out http://mapd.csail.mit.edu 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 http://mapd.it/19uTSVG
- taternuts 13y agoCool, seems like it's based on this demo: https://github.com/maachou/TweetMapViewer https://github.com/maachou/TweetMapViewer I hacked together a little twitter following thing using that as a guide this weekend (http://myemotions.herokuapp.com http://myemotions.herokuapp.com)
- mgingras 13y agoThats pretty cool actually, but I hand't seen that before. I did this all on my own.
- moneyrich4 13y agoevery one i read made me laugh, this is seriously sweet.
- snake_plissken 13y agoI 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."
- mgingras 13y agoThat's a gem. It filters on tweets having some sort of geographic information on them. Without that filter there are multitudes more.
- pranavrc 13y agohttps://dev.twitter.com/terms/geo-developer-guidelines https://dev.twitter.com/terms/geo-developer-guidelines I think it only shows the tweets with locations turned on.
- mgingras 13y agoThat is correct, it uses both the coordinates and places fields (see more about those here https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets 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.
- sygma 13y agoAnd this one from France: "@TimotheDcI : Fuck Louis XIV, Louis XVI , Paix a Louis Vuitton !"
- breadbox 13y agoFair warning: This is more addicting than it ought to be. Avoid unless procrastination is your goal.
- DigitalSea 13y agoSurprised 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.
- teamonkey 13y agoYou guys might fare better if there was a c-bomb tracker.
- notduncansmith 13y agoYou 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-76678 http://rapgenius.com/Tyler-the-creator-assmilk-lyrics#note-7... One of my personal favorites from OF
- ChristianMarks 13y agoThe mushroom clouds add an element of dark humor.
- mck- 13y agoIt reminds me of C&C
- xwowsersx 13y agoFucking Brits. Fucking Americans.
- krapp 13y agoFuck yeah.
- latraveler 13y agoSo its basically a map of who's using Twitter, lol nice.
- LionRoar 13y agoI 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.
- mgingras 13y agoI 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.
- mgingras 13y agoI've seen this a few times, pardon my naivety, whats a c-bomb?
- gaze 13y agoI 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.