The 10 States That Send the Worst Tweets

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By Michael Harthorne,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 18, 2016 4:48 PM CDT
The 10 States That Send the Worst Tweets
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Twitter, in the words of Chris Matyszczyk at CNET, gives us a place "upon which to emit every milliliter of our inner bile." But which states are responsible for the "nastiest, most racist, and most sexist" tweets? A study from Abodo, an apartment-hunting website, analyzed 12 million tweets found using a list of NSFW keywords to come up with the answer. Here now are the 10 states most responsible for turning Twitter into an intolerant cesspool:

  1. Louisiana: 1,155 tweets containing derogatory language for every 100,000 tweets. That's approximately one in every 87 tweets.
  2. Nevada: 929 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  3. Texas: 925 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  4. Maryland: 895 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  5. Delaware: 812 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  6. Ohio: 758 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  7. California: 717 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  8. Michigan: 711 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  9. Georgia: 669 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
  10. Rhode Island: 622 derogatory tweets for every 100,000 tweets.
Check out the full study to find out which state's Twitter users were specifically the most racist, most sexist, or most homophobic. (More Twitter stories.)

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