People Sure Tweet "Fuck" a Lot, Finds Science
The study analyzed about 51 million tweets from 14 million users to see if English speakers swear more often online than off, and more importantly, how those swear words are used. Frequency-wise, swearing is more prevalent on Twitter than in real life; the authors cite previous studies finding that “0.5% to 0.7% of all the words we speak in our daily lives are curse words,” while on Twitter the rate was 1.15 percent, or about double.
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