Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints

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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Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
Here's what Tampa smells like, according to years of Twitter complaints
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