Twitter Insights into Workstyle
You can tell a lot about a man by the way he twitters. Or so the saying might be.
Consider the following charts showing tweets by day of week and time of day (here in Vietnam, not for the user). The larger the bubble, the more tweets. Light gray indicates outgoing tweets, and the (usually smaller) dark circle indicates tweets that are replies.
Here is a hard working person, active seven days a week. You can tell this from the fairly uniform volume of tweets each day. But he does take it easy (or at least spends less time on his phone and computer) on Sundays, and Thursdays. He tweets a lot, but also spends some intense periods focusing on replying to others. He sleeps a fairly normal seven hours a night. This is venture capitalist, and famous twitter investor/twitterer, Fred Wilson.
This last person tweets throughout the day, but has a big empty period of sleep. Because he has at least some tweets at just about every hour, he either stays up all night occasionally, or else tweets while traveling in very different time zones. Tweeting is focused and deliberate work for him. He sits down at the same time Wednesday through Saturday, and sends a lot of outgoing tweets, with a much smaller number of replies. This is New York political technologist, Sanford Dickert.
These great visualizations are the result of creatively combining Twitter, Yahoo! Pipes, and Google App Engine by xefer.com.
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