BS: Maps can show almost anything

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 12:03 AM

I am glad that other people are willing to care bout Twitter so that I do not have to.

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 06:57 PM

I clicked on the "source" link and saw a map for another offensive word, not a key, which is what I was looking for. Both maps as shown have cut off most of New England. Whew! Sometimes being left out is a relief.

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:08 AM

If the map was compiled by mining Twitter messages* which specifically use the phrase "Fuck you", then the research is subject to regional and dialect-based errors.

For example, many messages originating south of the Mason-Dixon line would probably say "Fuck y'all!" and those originating in NYC or New Jersey would likely say "Hey! Go fuck ya'self!"

Unless the search algorithm was sufficiently fine-tuned to recognize such regional variants, the reseach cannot be considered 100% accurate.


* I'll call Twitter messages "tweets" when someone holds a gun to my head and forces me to do so.

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 10:25 AM

Maybe the people in the blank areas of the map have better things to do with their time than twitter away...

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 09:16 AM

I linked to the "news" report at MSNBC.

There is a "source" link at the bottom of that page that should take you to the "interactive map" where MSNBC got the story, probably with more details; but as I said "my interest was only worth a moment" so I didn't look to see how much more might be at the "real" map.

I noted that Kansas didn't show much, which I attribute to the majority here who hardly think anything at all unless their preacher tells them what to think, so they mostly have "no comment" unless it's real honest bible-based (or TeaParty Republican - much the same) HATE - which seems to be mostly in the extreme southeast corner of the state(?).

John

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: Dead Horse
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 07:51 AM

Looks like Houston has a problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: Allan C.
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 05:43 AM

A map is totally useless without a key.

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 05:01 AM

Why is Houston a red zone? They must be very bad-tempered there!

Subject: RE: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 03:32 AM

Southern Hospitality. Yankees do tend to be hateful and mean.
(:-( D)=

Good morning Mudcatters.
(:-( ))=

Subject: BS: Maps can show almost anything
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 01:06 AM

Worth perhaps momentary interest:

twitter-map-shows-where-the-biggest-jerks-live?.

(Maybe some of us should have a talk with our neighbors?)

John