Has 2016 been the crudest year ever? Study finds almost one-billion ‘f-words’ were written on social media this year – with the most coming the day after Donald Trump was elected Almost one-billion f-words were tweeted, posted, commented, shared and blogged across the internet in 2016, a new study has found. Analysis carried out on the language used across the internet found the word ‘f**k’ was used 946,158,697 times this year.