10,000 racist tweets are sent ever day, a major new study into racism on social networks has discovered.
Research by the think tank Demos found the biggest insult was 'white boy'.
Researchers analysed 126,975 English-language tweets from across the globe over a 9-day period in the biggest ever study of Twitter racism.
The Demos researchers claim 10,000 racist slurs are tweeted every day - but says many of them are used in a non-derogatory way
Researchers revealed the most common racial slurs used on the micro-blogging site included ‘whitey’ and ‘pikey’.
Grandpa's Spells wrote:Garm, who pretty much enjoyed racist jokes.
How many afro-americans does it take to change a light bulb?
287. 1 to change the bulb, five to a side for the basketball game, and the rest raping white women, eating chitterlings, siring innumerable unfathered children, and defrauding the welfare system.
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy.
It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
