Took the 50M twitter messages we saw between mid-November and mid-January and used Wordle to make a word cloud:  http://bit.ly/tweetcloud Fun!

(If you’re not familiar with a word cloud: the larger a word, the more often it was used. The colors & positions don’t mean anything, they’re just for fun. We stripped out the little words (a, the, with, …), leaving everything that appeared more than 10,000 times in the 50 million+ tweets we examined.)

Then I looked again at the filtered list and noticed something… just awesome.

Here are the forty most-commonly used words, in their exact order of decreasing frequency:

It’s time, Twitter. Love/Christmas blog:

Home! Thanks, people…

Night post:

Getting happy
watching morning
that’s tonight.
Tomorrow: looking news, trying nice? Check.

2009: Hope.
Week: 2008.

Little video:

snow.

Live free. Life. Awesome days!

Doing:

Feel house ready.
Look cool.
Sleep.
Yeah world!

I like your poem, Twitter.
A lot.

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