The 5 Senses on Twitter
by ChiaraLike most folks in the office, I’ve joined the Twitter bandwagon. I find it’s an easy way to keep in touch with folks I don’t see on a regular basis. And learn new things about those a I do see.
Just now I checked out Twist, a site that lets you chart how much folks are twittering about a topic and plots them against each other, over time. It’s a neat way to see how topics ebb and flow. I thought it would be neat to see how much the five senses are talked about on Twitter.
I think it’s fascinating that folks Twitter the most about things they see so much more than any other sense. I would have thought that smell would have ranked higher. I wonder if it’s because we are used to sharing things we saw with our cell phone cameras. Or if it’s just part of human storytelling. “You’ll never believe what I saw on the way home today…”
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May 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Most people Tweet in the past tense though… so if you look up “saw” and “heard” you’ll find it’s much closer than “see” and “hear.”
But “smelled” is no where there at all.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
This is so interesting. It’s also nifty to see the spikes around memes. This clearly shows when the “When Obama wins…” meme started. Wow. http://twist.flaptor.com/freq?gram=hillary%2Cobama
May 15th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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October 31st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
There is a new version of twist out, that has a cleaner interface, shows more data and gives tweets about the topics in the graph in the same page, so you can actually see what people are saying when they mention a topic. Its a simple tool, but useful, and a lot of fun to use.