Hate heat map shows where racist, homophobic tweets come from

MSN ^ | 5/14/13

[pabianice]

Ever wondered where those hateful, discriminatory tweets on Twitter were coming from?

A group of researchers from the Floating Sheep project – who also mapped racist tweets surrounding President Barack Obama's re-election – have geotagged racist, homophobic and ableist (directed at disabled people) tweets in the United States and plotted them on an interactive map.

Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., looked up all the geotagged tweets in North America between June 2012 and April 2013, manually reading and coding the sentiment of each tweet to determine if the given word was used in a positive, negative or neutral way in a project called the "Geography of Hate."

[Third Person]

“Hate”, as the Humboldt left defines it.

[Third Person]

I’d like to see a map of the hateful Sarah Palin tweets.

[Third Person]

Correction... hateful tweets about Sarah Palin.

[hal ogen]

I’d like to see the “moonbat/asshat” mapo...so I’d know areas to avoid when traveling.

[llevrok]

Add mine

Put me down as a TRUE hater of Communism and liberals.

[Victoria_R]

The red spots in Idaho are centered on Heyburn (population 3,000) and a town (Malad? population 2,000) so small it wasn’t even labeled.

I would guess these tweets centered on the recent debates on the acceptance of gays in the LDS church and in the Boy Scouts. The map is skewed because this area has few liberals to balance out conservative and LDS tweeters. There’s a reason the area is locally referred to as “North Utah”.

[skeeter]

I’m waiting for the ‘knockdown game’ heat map.

[OldNewYork]

Looks like some are coming from Mexico, too. Maybe this will convince them to control the border.

[Salgak]

Actually, where there are people MINUS where most of the tweets are commercial/PR . . .

As I show in the blog today. . .

Burning Stoopid: the Eat the Rich edition

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Great cartoon!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

odd; FReepers k, c & d said the same thing...