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Susan Boyle completely owned the Twitter Top 10 trends list once again on Sunday. Susan Boyle is still a trending topic, but she is now at about number eight and will most likely fall off the map at the mercy of a few sporting events yet to happen this week. Twitter trends are a great way to find out what the majority of twitter users are talking about, but the trends are only temporary. It would be nice if someone developed a twitter app to track the most consistently tweeted words or phrases.
If someone were to develop such an app and perform the analytics I am almost convinced that, excluding all articles and pronouns, the “f”-word would be near the top of the list – if not at the top. Now, the f-bomb is no Susan Boyle, but after performing my own set of tests and analysis I found that the expletive was tweeted an average of 331 times over the span of 10 minutes – exactly half of the average 662 tweets containing Susan Boyle across the same span of time. These are purely circumstantial because f*** was a well known piece of vocab long before anyone even uttered the name Susan Boyle. Yet, I can see how twitter may want to keep the common and trendy word off of the trending topics list. Many other websites do their best to keep the dirty words out of the public eye. So, kudos to twitter for keeping the feeds clean and/or censored – and don’t be surprised if you get inundated with the “curse word” in a few days in an attempt to confirm my suspicions.
So what does this repetitions cursing all mean? It could mean that the majority of the twitter crowd is younger and thus more comfortable tossing the word around. It could mean that twitter is the preferred place for people to blow off some steam and relieve their inner anger. It could mean that the “f”-word no longer carries with it the same sort of serious offensiveness that it once did. It could mean that twitter users are a bunch of habitual potty mouths. Or it could all mean nothing at all.
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