meish dot org: life, unfolding

I’ve been twittering since 4.02pm on November 15, 2006, when I announced to the the world that I was sleepy after lunch.

Since then, there have been 2,730 equally insightful compact messages, though these days my Twitter updates are protected (I’m one of those weird people who wants to know who I’m telling things to, which means I mostly only add people who I know, have met, or are vouched for by other friends).

In a moment of navel-gazing curiosity, I had a poke around TweetStats and was interested to discover that I update twitter an average of 3.7 times a day (thought it was more, though there are many who must be thankful it isn’t), my big day is Tuesday (by a nose), and I’ve managed to send 196 perfect 140-character updates (I refuse to call them Twooshes, for fuck’s sake).

Most fascinating of all (well, to me) is the revelation that my five most frequently used words (although I assume they discount words of less than 2 characters, otherwise @StephenFry’s most frequent utterance would be x, surely?) are: going, home, people, day, train (which is pretty much a twitter update in itself).

It’s interesting how reading through the list of frequently-used words reveals someone’s “voice”. I wonder if you could identify your twitter-chums from their clouds alone?

Here are my other digits, in case you’re interested or for comparison’s sake: