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Sat, 27 Mar 2010

Twitter Analysis

As time has passed, I have become more comfortable with Twitter and Identi.ca as tools for my "professional" life. Each depends on selecting people to follow. If I select the right people, I'll get a stream of useful information and links that the list I follow think is interesting enough to include in a Tweet/Dent.

Today, I read a blog entry from a Twitter link of jasonhiner. The blog entry talked about Twitter statistics using Tweetstats where I entered my own Twitter User name "algotruneman". I found out a variety of information in graph form. I'll show a couple here, but you can see them all by entering my user name in the blank on the tweetstats site.

You can see the pattern over time of my blogging along with the interesting average of 1.9 tweets a day. There are hourly graphs and more. Try your own account, of course, and try some accounts of those you follow. I am not sure if the stats are ever restricted. Graphs for all the people I tried all showed up.

Another tweet lead me to Sleeping Time. It uses the pattern of a person's tweets to show when they DON'T tweet and assume that you are asleep when you aren't active as a tweeter.

Neither of these sites provides much important data, I suppose, but it was interesting to see what coders do with open, programmer friendly APIs. Checking myself wasn't as interesting as checking others. They are more prolific than I am, and probably have more interesting lives, too.