In March, 2007, I was convinced by several people in my camp to get down with the mega-hyped service, Twitter.
Since then, I have dropped more than 1800 status messages — though rarely answering the question, “What are you doing?” The verbiage I lay down on Twitter usually reflects, “What am I thinking?”
More than once I have scanned my archives (at a 140 charaters apiece) — crate diggin’ my own thoughts for ideas that can be explored in lengthier pieces in the future.
TweetClouds.com provides additional clue about what my status messages encompass. Utilizing a visual tag cloud, where keywords are sized based on the weight of my usage, a clear display of what my updates focus on begins to take shape.
It is no surprise that Black, people, wifey, ‘preciate, and some of my more trademark colloquialisms stand tall. I plan to get down with this same service next year and reflect on the elasticity of my thoughts — and to what degree my words, like a hip-hop beat, will evolve.
Great find! I would have thought that “marinate” would have been right up there. I never hear that word without thinking of you, Clarence!
MrsB, I am not surprised that Marinate. does not stand as tall. I only drop that when it honestly applies, and do not sling it around enough to dilute it to the point where it no longer has meaning. Consider it a small seed that is being watered and over time will be a giant oak. Marinate.
My biggest word in my TweetCloud was “love”. I’m ok with that.
Very interesting indeed. Really awesome to be able to look back at a piece of your history like that, in such detail. That friggin rocks. Imagine when this type of service is used by the majority of peeps. Maybe society will then spend more time pausing and reflecting versus, fast forwarding and forgetting.
Pretty interesting that “people” is number one. That’s a good thing. It’s weird looking up there and wondering about how you live, and how your words reflect that. Can I plug in OTHER people’s stuff? That might be telling. You know who I mean.
I love the idea of comparing clouds from year to year… there is a fascinating long term project boiling here!! Video? visual? MARINATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ethan, no doubt! It is possible that our social media fishbowl would reflect in the way you suggest — the question is whether or not the reflection leads to action. That will be the next movement.
Chris, I do know who you mean. You can plug in other usersnames, actually, and see their clouds as well. There is no password authentication or archiving by the service itself. Try it out, then, hit me.
Kathryn, I agree. The interesting thing is, will the aspects of what I say (that I hope will grow and evolve), actually do so? We’ll see.
solid..LOVE your cloud! I always know you by MARINATE. Wow, I did not realize you were on Twitter since March 2007. I started in May 2007 but I did not become truly active until October.
Now, I appreciate twitter more because of the variety of people who are using it.
Thanks for the education! ;)
that’s hot! but i’m also shocked that marinate didn’t rank higher. ummmmm.
Penelope, likely it would be if the TweetClouds service actually processed your entire archive of messages. It’s not clear how far back it goes, but, not far enough (even *this week* it would seem).
thanks for putting me on to this…i just had to redo mine without the @ replies and I’m waiting for it to regenerate. i’ve got over 4000 updates in just over 4 months so i know i’ve been running off at the mouth lol.