Diversions

On a lighter note, I discovered a new online beta tool which looked fun. This tool, called TweetPsych, analyzes your twitter comment stream (same as my Facebook comment stream) and provides some observations about your writing style and what you tend to write about. I found this particularly interesting and appropriate.

The scores provided indicate the topic or styles that are used more than the average twitter user. I am not sure I could describe the average twitter user, but oh well. Anyway, the most interesting thing in the results to me is that my score for "Time" is off the charts. Those who know me will likely agree with this result. In fact, I am so obsessed with time that my wife and friends call me the Chrono-nazi! I had to laugh when I saw this. In the primordial content area "Temporal references" rated highest. Wow, these guys have me nailed! "Education" ranking high should not be a surprise with my current schooling. "Numbers" also not a surprise, my first degree (1988) was in Mathematics and Computer Science. I am not sure how useful this is, but it was fun.

From the analysis of my Twitter comments

The features displayed below are those for which you score higher than the average. The score indicates how much more often you tweeted something that matched each feature than the baseline.

Cognitive Content

Feature	Description	Score
Time		209.99
Education	You often talk about school and learning.	141.57
Number		99.31
Occupation & work	You talk a lot about jobs and your work.	84.26
Upward motion	You often make references to physically upward movement. Like upstairs, climb, etc.	55.23
Past tense	You tend to talk about the past.	43.47
Space		19.03
Metaphors	Many of your tweets contain metaphors.	10.3
Sensations	You tweet about your various senses often.	7.81
Motion		7.47
Physical references	You often talk about the physical characteristics of things.	7.19
Leisure		6.08
Certainty		5.73

Primordial, Conceptual and Emotional Content

Feature	Score
Temporal References	111.32
Glory	91.62
Constructive behaviors	45.09
Order	35.21
Narcissism	34.42
Visual sensations	24.48
Concreteness	23.07
Cold sensations	16.89
Aggression	16.82
Sadness	7.64