A question that I didn’t think I’d ever get an answer to. However, all of that changed this evening when everything I’ve been wittering on about on Twitter for the past 18 months or so was presented to me in cloud form!
Tweetclouds takes your Twitter feed and bundles the most used words into a cloud (see above for the collated joy of my past 500 tweets). It’s a nice, simple application that offered me more of a revelation than anything particularly useful.
In some ways it’s like being able to get some stats for your own life (if you care that much). I’m a big fan of any kind of data porn or visualisation and after seeing this I have to admit, I’d be interested in finding more ‘lifestats’ apps like this.
So, a slightly light hearted analysis of the cloud is in order, given that my tweets aren’t particularly focussed on any one topic, or really that focussed at all.
Here’s what I gleaned from the pulsing mass of blue above:
<beginanalysis> I go places like the office to do some work or my house (to continue to work), mainly during the day. I am occasionally distracted by going drinking or thinking about which new, nice things I need at some point during said day. Whilst doing all this I have worked on some projects, ordered some pizza and possibly stopped some strange street stuff whilst being stuck on the District Line.
</endanalysis>
Revealing. I guess I should do it again about tweet number 1000 and see if my endless babble has changed in any way.
What the hell am I on about?
A question that I didn’t think I’d ever get an answer to. However, all of that changed this evening when everything I’ve been wittering on about on Twitter for the past 18 months or so was presented to me in cloud form!
Tweetclouds takes your Twitter feed and bundles the most used words into a cloud (see above for the collated joy of my past 500 tweets). It’s a nice, simple application that offered me more of a revelation than anything particularly useful.
In some ways it’s like being able to get some stats for your own life (if you care that much). I’m a big fan of any kind of data porn or visualisation and after seeing this I have to admit, I’d be interested in finding more ‘lifestats’ apps like this.
So, a slightly light hearted analysis of the cloud is in order, given that my tweets aren’t particularly focussed on any one topic, or really that focussed at all.
Here’s what I gleaned from the pulsing mass of blue above:
<beginanalysis>
I go places like the office to do some work or my house (to continue to work), mainly during the day. I am occasionally distracted by going drinking or thinking about which new, nice things I need at some point during said day. Whilst doing all this I have worked on some projects, ordered some pizza and possibly stopped some strange street stuff whilst being stuck on the District Line.
</endanalysis>
Revealing. I guess I should do it again about tweet number 1000 and see if my endless babble has changed in any way.
Edit: On a work tip, here’s the cloud for a sample of about 11,000 records played over the last year on BBC Radio 1: www.tweetclouds.com/user_pages/bbcradio1.html