Gavin Wray // Carefully crafting content since 2001

I stumbled across an interesting application called Twittersheep that produces a word cloud based on the biographies of your followers on Twitter. This is what Twittersheep came up with based on my followers:

There aren’t many surprises in the words that pop out. In a way, I’m quite pleased that my followers’ interests or specialisms match closely to my own.

It’s still interesting though to see what topics your followers use to describe their own interests and how these topics correspond to what you ‘think’ your tweets are about. It’s the content of your tweets that retains followers after all.

What’s noteworthy to me is the significant number of words that look like they’re part of job titles, which leads me to think of Twitter bios as professional statements rather than personal descriptions or hobby lists.

While I’m looking at this word cloud from a curiousity angle, Twittersheep looks like a useful tool for marketers. Daniel Davies notes how businesses targeting a certain demographic or pushing their brand using Twitter could use Twittersheep to learn more about their followers.

Carefully posted on 28th May 2009
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Tagged with Tools· Twitter· Twittersheep· Visualization
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