A month on Twitter, in Wordle

Monday, June 16th, 2008 @ 8:37 pm | Geek
Wordle - Create

So the new hotness these days is Wordle, which lets you throw in any text you want and get a cool-looking cloud.  Most people use it to make pretty del.icio.us tag clouds, but I don’t have enough clouds to make it very exciting.  So I thought to what other text I’ve done recently, and realized that I do more writing on Twitter than anywhere else.  I went to my page and copied/pasted everything from the past month into a text box. Then I cut and pasted it to Word, where I used find & replace to get rid of most of the obvious words that take up valuable space (AM, PM, June, May, Hahlo, Twitterrific).  Then I combed through to get rid of all the “in reply to X” lines.  The final result you see above, which you should totally click on in order to see the larger version.

2 Responses to “A month on Twitter, in Wordle”

  1. Lisa Thumann Says:

    Thanks for sharing this Dan – I’ve been playing with Wordle as well.

    My interpretation of your cloud:

    You are sitting with @Teachakidd talking about people’s tiny url’s.

    Be nice. :)

    Lisa

  2. geek.teacher » Blog Archive » Six months on Twitter (in Wordle) Says:

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