Twittering Lightly through Spring

You'd think someone in Grandbaby 2.2 mode could have managed more tweets than this in April. Cancer fatigue syndrome aside, I'm seriously slacking.

Click on image to get full size display of the usage I've made of twitter in the year since I began tweeting.

Do you use tweetstats? Did you know that going to http://tweetstats.com and entering your twitter name could get the graph for your twitter use too?

It's a great little goodie that Damon Cortesi aka twitterer dacort put together for us with love plus his techie know-how and who knows what else - like gum and shoestrings maybe.

It would be interesting to see if Damon could monetize this, so I asked myself how much I'd pay for more stats - like who's talking to me and what's different in my followers / followees or conversations this month versus last month given that what we have is an aggregate of all conversations since the beginning of tweetdom - or in this case since I started using twitter a year ago. My answer was really that it depended on what kind of information was offered.

I wonder how interesting it would be to see more about who it is we used to be talking to at 3AM vs those we talk to now after midnight (obviously the west coasters but are there more differences?)

Granted, I've got a social science background and used to produce monthly statistics reports for the employment and training program I monitored, so I'm a stats junkie. But the graphing available to us now is just so rich it's fascinating.

Beyond our curiosity about who's talking to who, what tools they use and when, Damon has written about how this kind of tool can be used to identify spam twitter accounts here. I could seriously spend a lot of time just looking and graphing and looking and thinking. It's probably time to donate via the button on TweetStats too.

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end note: Recently I saw that Lawrence Simon aka Second Life's Crap Mariner had referred to my writing as a "fire hose" I don't know if that means he was still following me on twitter after my surgery when I was updating and thanking people - or not. That red line on the graph is kinda dramatic, even for a communicator.