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Tweets Can Determine Your Past, And Future!

A few practical experiments around the microblogging service.

 

It's not new for researchers to toy around with data that goes up on Twitter; after all it is a gold mine of freely available data and that too in abundance. After coming up with a depression meter, this time a new study aims to recreate your life with the help of your tweets. This new algorithm by Jiwei Li of Carnegi Mellon University and Claire Cardie of Cornell University sifts through your posts chronologically to analyse your past:  "By analyzing [sic] individual tweet collection[s], we find that what are suitable for inclusion in the personal timeline should be tweets talking about personal (as oppos[ed] to public) and time-specific (time general) topics". Called as the Dirichlet Process mixture model, this system breaks down tweets into four categories: "Personal time-specific; personal time-general; public time-specific; and public time-general".

Researcher used regular twitter users alongside celebs such as NBA star Dwight Howard. The model works for users with a substantial amount of tweets. Check out the analysis below.

In another interesting Twitter-based research, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is trying to aid a plant's growth and health using the microblogging service. Just head over to the project's official website and tweet a message to a plant, with the #talktoaplant hashtag. This is converted into robotic speech, and is relayed to the plant through a speaker. The site lets you hear this audio message on the site as well. As one plant gets all the love (and some brickbats), another sits in utter silence. This experiment will gauge the overall growth of both plants, along with the size and colour of their leaves colour and size of the plants' leaves.

And you thought weird applied to only some Twitterati suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder!


TAGS: Internet, Twitter

 
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