Does Tampa have a definitive odor? What smell makes up your neighborhood? The airport? The beach? These are some of the biting questions that got us to dig through a decade's worth of Twitter posts for answers. According to some Twitter users, Tampa smells like everything from a "fart", to "a sneeze" to a "swamp and broken dreams." Here's a few of the more poignant Twitter observations going back to 2006.
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