Faggot used in 2.4 million tweets

Since July 5, 2012 “faggot” and variations of this word have been tweeted
over 2.4 million times on Twitter. This number was announced today with the unveiling of a new website called nohomophobes.com by the University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS).

The website, designed to serve as a “social mirror,” captures the homophobic language that exists in
Twittersphere and counts tweets that use the terms: “Faggot” (2.4 million), “So Gay” (800,000 tweets), “NoHomo” (800,000 tweets) and “Dyke” (300,000 tweets).

Witness the live tweets here: www.nohomophobes.com

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