…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:
- Take a Twitter user’s friends (who they follow).
- Look at each of their homepages.
- See what del.icio.us says about those pages, in terms of tags.
- 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!

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