Cursebird: F#@!ing thing sucks!
I’m shocked it has taken someone this long to come up with this: An aggregator for all those naughty Twitter folk swearing in their tweets (Twitter messages). Cursebird, created by developer Richard Henry, is exactly that.
It probably needs no further explanation, but in case someone tries to blame me for sending them to a site laced with profanity, I’ll repeat again very plainly: The point of this site is to find any tweet with cursewords in them and list them out. As Cursebird lays it out: “What the f#@! is everyone swearing about?”
Cursebird is the latest in a series of simple applications/filters built on top of Twitter that parse the service’s massive amount of data to show interesting things. Overheard.it has long been scanning tweets for the “OH” text indicating something had been overheard and sent to Twitter. Politweets is another filter that broke down political conversation on the site. Twitter has since launched its own site specifically built to showcase political-based tweets during election time.
I think I still prefer Qwitter, the application that alerts you when people stop following you on Twitter. It has at least tripled the size of my enemy list over the past few weeks.
Cursebird says it’s a realtime feed of people swearing on Twitter, but if you go to the site right now, you’ll see that it contains the message: “We’re overloaded right now, so we can’t update this in realtime.” This is no doubt thanks to coverage from the popular blogs Daring Fireball and Laughing Squid, and is the inspiration for my Bill O’Reilly-esque title.
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