Profane Words on Twitter: an analysis of the use of swear words in different countries.

Decreasing the usage of profanity terms can reduce a toxic environment, create a clean language culture towards the z-generation who is now exploring the online world. To understand how intensive is profanity usage in social media platforms, we collected a sample of tweets for the year 2020, from Jan 2020 to Dec 2020. A total of 4,175,516 tweets that contained the reference list of various profanity words is collected, with its geographical country compiled. Each of the tweets included at least a profanity term from the categories set of profanity. This study intends to visualise the profanity classes in text communication among users from different countries. This idea is to create awareness of language usage and suggest a possible mechanism to assist or investigate a potential crime, such as racism or cyberbully detection.