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"God sure is a tough guy to track down. \nWe know He's on Facebook and Twitter, which is a start, but that's hardly enough nowadays. Where else is He hanging around all the time?\nChicago-based copywriter Kevin Lynch wanted to find out. Specifically, he wanted to know how many times the man upstairs was being mentioned across social networks. On Good Friday, he and a group of colleagues launched God-Was-Here.com, a satirical website that pulls data from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram every time the word \"God\" is used. \n\"The inspiration for the site came from the proliferation of 'thank yous' to God that have invaded all sports postgame interviews, music award shows, and other events where you would assume God didn't have a rooting interest,\" Lynch told Mashable. \n\"It got some friends and I thinking, 'Obviously, God is busier than we thought. Someone should be keeping tabs on His daily achievements.'\"\nThe site operates under a basic, data-scraping algorithm that's formatted into different categories based on context. If someone mentions the word \"God\" in a tweet where \"coffee\" is also used, for example, it's placed into a \"God poured more coffee\" section. There's also a map of the United States where visitors can see \u2014 in real time \u2014 how often the word is mentioned in each state. \nSEE ALSO: Holy Satire: God's Irreverent Facebook Strategy\n\n\n\"If you're going to properly track what God is achieving, you really need to do so in real time,\" he said. \"Otherwise, people think you're just making shit up.\"\nAs with most data-scraping algorithms, the context doesn't always align with each category. The \"God gets angry\" section aims to compile messages where \"God\" and \"damn\" are used together, but some tweets \u2014 like the one below \u2014 just happen to include both words separately.\n\nThank god we have internet in this place, today sucks in this damn shop. ntn to do but stare at these race cars!\n\u2014 Jrivas_Aphillyated (@APhillyatedKing) April 4, 2013\n\nIt's still a new project, though, and Lynch said he's taking it one (God-tracking) step at a time. Check it out for yourself. Tell us what you think in the comments. \nImages courtesy of Flickr, p.Gordon; Kevin Lynch\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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