A SMALL community in the region has been identified as having some of the sweariest tweeters in the country.

Academics investigated patterns of swearing on the Twitter social networking site and found the Redcar and Cleveland council borough to have the most curse-ridden tweets.

And within the borough, Teesville, a community of 7,000 near Eston and South Bank, had the most cussed Twitter users of all.

The study was completed by academics at the University College of London who monitored tweets sent from smartphones with their geo-locations switched on.

Researchers found that from the week beginning Thursday, August 28, almost eight per cent of tweets from the Redcar and East Cleveland area contained swear words, nearly double the national average.

The f-word was the most featured swearword in all of the tweets collected over the course of the week, accounting for 2.16 per cent of tweets that were sent. Other curse words that featured prominently were “s***” and “a***” but the c-word made up just 0.28 per cent of all tweets.

After Redcar and east Cleveland the next five areas for cursing were all in Scotland. However the politest areas were also in Scotland with the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands having the fewest curse-word tweets.

Cllr Sheelagh Clarke is deputy leader of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and represents the Teesville area.

She said: “It is a big shock, I am really, really surprised. I don’t Twitter myself but I would say that generally the people of Greater Eston are very tolerant and I would say we don’t moan as much as people in other places. I genuinely don’t hear people swear much.

“I read that people who swear get their anger out and don’t commit crimes out of being angry. That must be what’s going on, at least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”

Dr Hannah Fry, one of the people who carried out the research, said: “Twitter has a reputation for being really the home of angry, aggressive messages that people send each other, but I was a bit surprised that across the entire week, only 4.2 per cent of all tweets contained any kind of profanity.”