What the f#@! is everyone cursing about?

February 10, 2009 4:55 PM

Cursebird is a real-time feed of people cursing on Twitter.
posted by chuckdarwin (44 comments total)

Watching the feed is surprisingly entertaining.
posted by pombe at 4:58 PM on February 10, 2009

Honestly very funny. Could go with the Sopranos link from earlier. Which was also funny.

Only this is funnier.
posted by Xoebe at 4:59 PM on February 10, 2009

And another long day of fucking Metafilter comes to a close.
Good night, you fucking Princes of Maine and shit, you Kings of New Motherfucking England!
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:59 PM on February 10, 2009

Yeah, I'm going to be on there a lot. Sigh.
posted by padraigin at 5:00 PM on February 10, 2009

" @rabble Oh great, now everybody's going to start cursing to raise their cursebird.com rating... hopefully this fad will fade enroute to india "
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:04 PM on February 10, 2009

Fuck is the king of the mountain, but dick is up 35%. I sense a comeback!
posted by vibrotronica at 5:06 PM on February 10, 2009

I must say I really enjoy the "Top 5" chart at the top.

And, at #5 with a bullet, "CUNT"
posted by setanor at 5:07 PM on February 10, 2009

So does it scan everyone's feeds?
posted by Science! at 5:13 PM on February 10, 2009

So does it scan everyone's feeds?

I would assume they just hit search.twitter.com for each of the curse words they want to track.
posted by wildcrdj at 5:16 PM on February 10, 2009

Needs to expand its reach to foreign words and combine with Twittervision so we can witness bad language the world over.
posted by ardgedee at 5:24 PM on February 10, 2009

Come on come on come on where is it?!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 5:27 PM on February 10, 2009

One of them reads "fucking metafilter aight". How meta... uh, filter.

It must be scanning every feed, because I looked again in the middle of posting this and the "fucking metafilter aight" one was already gone.
posted by DecemberBoy at 5:27 PM on February 10, 2009

And there it went. Woo, I'm famous.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 5:28 PM on February 10, 2009

I mean, for a given word you can just do this yourself:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=fuck

The only value cursebird adds is the counts.
posted by wildcrdj at 5:29 PM on February 10, 2009

I don't show up. I apparently don't exist on Twitter.
posted by Caduceus at 5:35 PM on February 10, 2009

They need to rank the individual ... um ... twits. The people twitting.

I mean, the place isn't called "tweater"...
posted by Edgewise at 5:35 PM on February 10, 2009

We've had Bale, the Sopranos, and now this.

FoulLanguageZone
posted by turgid dahlia at 5:40 PM on February 10, 2009

I found the #6 worldwide, completely by chance.
posted by Edgewise at 5:41 PM on February 10, 2009

Don't talk shit about Total.
posted by clearly at 5:48 PM on February 10, 2009

Damn. I guess Sony had a hit on their hands after all.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:52 PM on February 10, 2009

The output of this needs to be fed into a speech synthesizer, going to some big fucking speakers on the edge of a canyon somewhere.
posted by Jimbob at 5:52 PM on February 10, 2009

ozjimbob swears like a Children’s TV Presenter. Ranked: 110,799th worldwide

Must. Try. Harder.
posted by Jimbob at 5:53 PM on February 10, 2009

Spooky coincidence considering that Jeph Jacques' Yelling Bird just joined Twitter today too.
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 5:57 PM on February 10, 2009

Schlimmbesserung: Somehow, I doubt that was a coincidence :-)
posted by danb at 5:59 PM on February 10, 2009

"jessamyn swears like Eric Cartman"
posted by jessamyn at 6:24 PM on February 10, 2009

heh:

links -dump cursebird.com | grep \* | say
posted by pompomtom at 6:25 PM on February 10, 2009

I'm watching you watch yourself watch paint dry.
posted by nola at 6:31 PM on February 10, 2009

"brundlefly swears like a Horse Whisperer"

I had no idea my Tweets were so unrepresentative of me
posted by brundlefly at 6:37 PM on February 10, 2009

> ardgedee swears like a Mute
Ranked: Bottom Swears: 0 Score: Lame of 100

Hah. Eat shit, you fucks.
posted by ardgedee at 6:39 PM on February 10, 2009

I am surprised by how amusing this is. Twitter has a purpose, after all.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 7:01 PM on February 10, 2009

Twitter has a purpose, after all.

Let's not go overboard...
posted by pompomtom at 7:11 PM on February 10, 2009

Ambrosia is trying to level up.
posted by sideshow at 7:22 PM on February 10, 2009

I wondered, upon seeing this, whether longer compound curse words like "motherfucker" and its ilk are less represented because their length is prohibitive to tweets.

Then I felt like a total dork.

Of course, I'm the person who discovered via her thesis that "motherfucker" passes the spellchecker.
posted by ilana at 7:31 PM on February 10, 2009

I'm mostly wondering how many words it indexes.
posted by box at 7:33 PM on February 10, 2009

I am surprised that we got as far in this thread as we did before a "Twitter is pointless" jab.

I'm mostly wondering how many words it indexes.

I've noticed it doesn't index "asshole."
posted by brundlefly at 7:58 PM on February 10, 2009

Yah srsly bitches, what's above Gangsta Rapper? I STARTED there, fuck's sake.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:07 PM on February 10, 2009

I've noticed it doesn't index "asshole."

'Asshole' isn't a swear. It's the Queen's English.
posted by mazola at 10:23 PM on February 10, 2009

I am Ranked: 162,179th worldwide on CurseBird
I cursed once in 386 updates.
(Put in your Twitter username to get your rank)

Kind of a shame this has to follow the 02.09.09 post mentioning
the brilliance of twitter use via
http://twitter.com/Genny_Spencer

Honestly, though
When it comes to real time internet activity
I feel I may be the last person alive
still enjoying digg swarm
posted by will wait 4 tanjents at 10:59 PM on February 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

I am ranked 2,303rd worldwide. 99 out of 100. Fuck yeah.
posted by flashboy at 12:45 AM on February 11, 2009

'Asshole' isn't a swear. It's the Queen's English.

I think you'll find that the Queen pronounces it 'arsehole'. Asshole is some obscure colonial variation.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:49 AM on February 11, 2009 [1 favorite]

I got my Twitter account a few months ago for the sole purpose of getting on Cursebird.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 12:56 AM on February 11, 2009

Also of note: Shitwitter, which does something roughly similar, but just with shit. (By number 1574.)
posted by flashboy at 1:23 AM on February 11, 2009

We like to keep it pure of purpose.
posted by Jofus at 2:15 AM on February 11, 2009

That's surprisingly funny / clever / stupid. Nice work!
posted by ph00dz at 5:48 AM on February 11, 2009