If you are who you “follow” …..

…then I should be into design, technology, business, twitter, web 2.0, social, and social media.

As a Cognitive Science/HCI person studying social media, that’s pretty close :) My friend Mike Krieger produced this from a little experiment he did last weekend. The idea is simple:

  1. Take a Twitter user’s friends (who they follow).
  2. Look at each of their homepages.
  3. See what del.icio.us says about those pages, in terms of tags.
  4. Make a tag cloud of those tags.

This was the result for my ~150 Twitter “friends“:

He did the same for Christopher’s first 500 (of ~1500) Twitter “friends“:

Pretty cool. Thanks, Mike!

2 Comments

  1. mikeyk said:
    # | 8 Sep 2008

    Thanks for blogging this, Brynn! I brushed up the script a bit (it can now fetch all your friends), and released it over at http://hci.stanford.edu/mkrieger/blog/2008/09/what_do_your_twitter_friends_s.html .

  2. brynn said:
    # | 8 Sep 2008

    Awesome! Thanks for releasing that! And again, nice work…

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