The current rate is . The historical average for this time of day is .
In the last 6 hours, of tweets have been laden with expletives, for a WTF index of .
For the last 24 hours, of tweets have been obnoxious, vulgar, or generally sweary, for a WTF index of .
Current Trend:
The WTF Index tracks the magnitude of the tweet. Tweets that are more 'expressive' score higher on the scale.
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WTFLevel.com is a project to track and monitor the amount of swearing on Twitter at any given moment. It's mostly a humorous attempt to get an idea of how aggravated the planet is at any moment.
We continuously check Twitter for references to a list of swear words. The list is private to prevent anyone from trying to manipulate the system, but as an example, the Seven Dirty Words are all on the list. At the moment, the list is made up of only swears in English.
Every 10 seconds we total up the count of all tweets containing a swear, and figure out the rate of sweary tweets from that. The stats on the website are updated in real-time with any new data.
We convert the rate into a 'threat level' - which is really just a spoof of the DEFCON system that kept you up at night as a kid, and also of the Homeland Security threat level. The threat levels are:
Whenever the threat level changes, we post that information to Twitter, so you can know right away.
Tweets by @WTFLevelWe provide several tools you can use to get data about the current level of swearing on Twitter.
First, you can make an HTTP call to http://wtflevel.com/score.php, which will return a JSON response with the following values:
{"score":"18.4805","rate":"0.0505","level":"Tirades"}
If you just want to display the current tirade level on your website, simply include the following tag in any wherever you want the badge to appear: Optionally, you can put the code in the footer of your HTML page, and specify the ID of a tag to replace with the badge like so: This will replace the the element with id #foo with the badge.
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