Orkney tweeters are Britain’s politest

Orkney has the most polite Twitter users in the UK, according to a University College London report.

A team from the college’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) monitored geo-located tweets sent from smartphones in the UK over the period August 28 to September 4.

The study, which was for BBC Radio 4’s Future Proofing programme, found that Orkney, followed by Shetland, Oxford and Westminster, had the lowest percentage of profane tweets, with 0.81 per cent of all tweets sent in the county containing swearing.

Another other point arising from the study, which took into account 1.3 million tweets, were that rural areas, rather than urban areas, featured in the top ten areas with the highest percentage of profane language.