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Right now it only tracks the actual string "fuck", if you check out the code on gh, https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb , by changing line 67 of coffeeApp.coffee, "stream = Twitter.stream 'statuses/filter', {track:'fuck'}" , you could track anything you wanted.

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Cool, wanted to find out if it was possible to track anything, specifically I wanted to know if the C-bomb was more common in UK and Australia :)

If would be nice if it was possible to change the tracked word directly from the interface (or maybe some service like this already exists).

I'm actually planning on writing this since the change would be trivial. But that also makes it less appealing to do haha. I will see when I can get it done.

could be a powerful tool with hints of what's most popular on twitter atm. then people can track real time events

So a step further, you could add a user input feature and let people track any word they want.

It's actually on my to-do list, tweetmap.co , it just got pushed to the back burner for the moment due to school.

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