Like New Social People 8 months of my tweets, distilled. I love that phrase so much. Becoming new so
Like New Social People 8 months of my tweets, distilled. I love that phrase so much. Becoming new social people is, to me, exactly what we’re trying to do in my corner of the internet - trying to find new social forms and modes of relating across distance, across culture, anonymously and pseudonymously, as networked communities not just individuals. Understanding how new sites & platforms enable us to become new social people is why I am a social media researcher. Like New Social People. Just found the title for my first book, y'all. I am also obviously quite amused by how completely predictable the other keywords in there are. Only surprises: I don’t talk that much about “tech” or “technology” or “design” as such, despite Twitter Ads showing me that these are my audience’s main interests. I wonder if it would increase my engagement rate if I did? More on the temptations of a data-driven self in a blog post to come… Method: quick and easy! Twitter export via ads.Twitter.com (I think everyone can access this? If not, pretend to sign up for Twitter Advertising then you get all your stats) In Excel, add to a previous export to get 8 months data (5 April - 5 Dec 2014) Sort alphabetically by tweet text, then code tweets as Original vs. @Reply Use Find-Replace to swap & for & (it was distorting the graph) Copy-paste all Original (non-reply) tweets into Wordle.net Wordle settings: top 200 words, guess case (so Social and social are amalgamated), exclude common English words (and, to, if etc), sort alphabetically Manually exclude a couple of other common English words I overuse (just, actually, also) for a prettier graph -- source link
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