Find the followers that best suit you…
By Sam Chimes
Steven Hodson has followed up his post at Shooting at Bubbles about TweetPsych with a piece for the Inquisitr on the same subject. It basically sees him getting a little twitchy about being profiled in a psychoanalytical fashion by the content of his Twitter feed.
In Steven’s words, the site “analyzes your last 1,000 tweets where a custom mix of Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID), Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) and some of creator Dan Zerralla’s own Twitter analysis framework as well as a Porter stemming algorithm to come up with a profile of the type of person you are.” These are words that he describes as psycho-babble, certainly a fair assessment. All you really need to know about the site is this – enter your username and be given in return a psychological breakdown.
It’s an interesting concept, being broken down by the content of 140 character snippets. Dan’s recently added psychological matches, with the process returning five matches to your mental state and also the option to create a psychological profile. This allows you to enter a URL and find 50 matches cerebrally similar to the ‘psycho-graphic’ profile TweetPsych makes of the site. Ideal for finding followers?
Now, I found TweetPsych all rather fun, and discovering I swear more than I should wasn’t exactly a revelation. Nevertheless before you delve, heed Steven’s concerns; “this is treading a pretty touchy area and one I’m not sure I like the idea of entering, even if just for yucks.”
