Obama makes me jealous of Americans. Please go read a few posts on India Uncut to see why.

So, here is the Wordle of all the words used in the last 1,500 tweets containing the word Obama. I removed the words “Barack” and “President” to give a clearer picture:

I’m not American, and know zilch about American politics, so won’t say anything. Quite an illuminationg one, I’d say.

P.S: Suggestions for other Twitter Search Wordles welcome

Starting off another series of Wordles and starting off again with Mona

As you should have guessed from the Title, this time I am going to analyse replies to Mona – to be more precise, tweets containing either @mona or @monaaa (she changed her twitter handle recently). I could only take the last 1,500 replies, since that is the limit Twitter Search allows me (anyone know anyway I could extend this to go farther back?)

Wordle

Here is the wordle:

Lots of Retweets (126 of them), quite a few bacon tweets (71 of them), 49 Thanks tweets, 85 like tweets & 42 tweets about the iPhone

People who Tweet to her

And here is the list of the top 10 people who have replied to her:

The last 1,500 replies to her were from 492 people, so quite a lot of people do talk to her And as usual, here is the Zoho Sheet with the full list: HTML Version | AJAXy Version.

I was about to put a neat little visualization here with the profile pics of all those people who tweeted to her, but I’ve got semester exams coming up (Sorry Mona) So, I’’m going to put The Statbot on autopilot for 10 days, and come back after that to tackle the visualization. Don’t worry – I’ve recorded enough posts to go live when I’m gone, and I will still reply to email/comments

Oh, and I am working on some more extensions to the site – Some rather big, and hopefully the first of many-to-come extensions. Will go live on Feb 9th – and will preview to a few people before that.

When I posted Scoble’s GReader Leaderboard I included a spreadsheet that contained the entire list, rather than just the first ten sites. So here is the same one for Louis Gray – the leaderboard for the last 5000 shares and 10,000 shares: html version | ajaxy version

This will probably go on with every leaderboard I produce.

Update: Added data for the last 1000 shares as well

No more Twitter Wordles on the Statbot.

Why?

Because as Damon Cortesi (@dacort) who made the totally awesome Tweetstats site informed me, this feature has been built right into Tweetstats for quite some time! Just go check your stats (here’s mine), and go to the Tag Cloud and click on the “Make a wordle!” link at the bottom right. Works schweet

Doesn’t mean there won’t be any wordles though!

Scoble, the guy who originally made the concept of Google Reader Shared Items as a “Link Blog” famous. He was also the first person to be featured on Statbot (back when it was hosted on my personal blog), and has been extremely helpful to me in ways even he might not have imagined

Anyway, here is the leaderboard of his last 5,000 shares on Google Reader:

Notes

• Only four individual blogs up there (LG, Thomas Hawk, Dave Winer and Scoble himself). Much lower than the one for Louis Gray, but expected for Scoble.
• I could count four firehose feeds there (Planet Interwingly, ZDNet Blogs, MSDN Blogs & Hacker News) which pretty much tons of blogs/feeds packed into one. How the hell does he read them? Borg technology?
• That weird looking url at spot 6, as most of you would have guessed, is his Ego Search feed on Google Blogsearch. I wonder how long back he had switched from Technorati to Google Blog Search?
• And that other weird looking url at spot 14 is the combined feed of all the GigaOM network blogs. Wonder why it isn’t provided by GigaOM itself?
• Both Giz and Engadget are present, Engadget has almost twice as many shares as Gizmodo.
• Hacker News beats Digg (which is at spot 36, with 25 shares).
• The top four are all in some way or the other related to Web 2.0 and startups – and combined together contribute to more than 13.5 % of his feed.

And to compare trends, here’s the leaderboard for the last 10,000 shares on Google Reader:

Notes

• First thing to note is that the Ego Search has jumped up in the bigger list, meaning that either (i) People stopped writing much about Scoble or (ii) He stopped caring.
• There is still a gap between Engadget and Gizmodo, though not as pronounced. Must get real hard, looking at all that tech porn
• All those firehose feeds were still there, and there were more shares from them than now. Infact, two firehoses are present in the 10,000 shares list but missing in the 5,000 shares list - Digg and Sun Blogs.
• Note that Digg beats Hacker News here. Reddit is way down at spot 72 with 26 shares (out of 10,000)
• Quite a few shares from when he was still at the now-defunct PodTech.

Questions for Scoble:

Now, I have a few questions to ask Scoble:

• Why the hell is FastCompany missing from both the lists? I found a total of just 9 shares from all the fastcompany.com websites combined. WTF? (Or am I totally missing something here?)
• Why Google Blog Search instead of Technorati?
• Why the firehose feeds instead of subscribing individually? (I once tried subscribing to the MSDN Blogs firehose feed. Lasted all of 2 hours before unsubscribing)
• If the link blog is pinned as a place to share quality links/posts, and it’s so dominated by magazi-blogs, does that mean that Indie bloggers are not producing great content? Or content in great-enough numbers? (Note that this is not as bad for the Indie guys as it sounds – I’ll post graphs tomorrow showing that many blogs contribute a small number of posts, while a few blogs contribute a large number of posts. That’s power law – All I’m asking is why is that so. Why aren’t the few blogs that contribute a large number of posts written by single persons, but are basically magazines?)
• Am I sane?

Get the Raw Data from Zoho

And if you want to have a look yourself, you can get the entire list (not just the top 25) from this Zoho Spreadsheet (html version). I will probably upload spreadsheets for every leaderboard I do from now on

Duncan Riley is best known to me as the aussie who doesn’t talk much Cricket – atleast not from where I can see He writes for the Inquisitr, and had written for quite a few other well known blogazines before.

Here’s the wordle of his last 3000 tweets:

Twitter favorites “Just” and “now” make a comeback, along with back, like, good, know, think, time, Great, last, well and thx. Notice that Cricket is nowhere to be found.

iPhone, Twitter, Techmeme, FriendFeed, Google, even Inquisitr appear pretty small. Wassup with that, Duncan?

Extraordinary PR Guy –> Steve Rubel. Need I say more?

Here’s the wordle of his last 3000 tweets:

Google figures big – so does Twitter, FriendFeed (his FriendFeed account) and iPhone. While the ever favorite ‘just’ makes a smaller-than-usual appearance, ‘now’ is nowhere to be seen. Also, note that most of his tweets are automated ones from FriendFeed and blog postings, and so many tweets will be just the titles of Blog posts.

(P.S. This Wordle is here courtesy of Mona’s request )

Louis Gray’s post about maximizing the value of a Google Reader Linkblog reminded me that I’m again behind schedule. So here is Louis Gray’s Google Reader Shared Items Leaderboard, considering the sources for the last 1000 items shared:

His own blog comes first, with 9.5% of stories, followed by TechCrunch, RWW, Venturebeat and Scoble. There are only 2 blogs in the top ten (Scoble and Dave Winer), and 10 blogs in the top 25. However, I believe that as I produce leaderboards for more people, I’ll find it filled more and more by those magazine-blog-whatevers like TechCrunch and Centernetworks.

And just for some historical interest, here’s a leaderboard of the last 5,000 items shared:

I’ll leave you people to compare & make notes, but here are mine:

• Profy, at spot 7 in the 5,000 items list, does not appear in the 1,000 items list. By does not appear, I mean does not appear – There isn’t even a single item shared. Wassup with that?
• Hutch Carpenter makes an entry at spot 15 when you consider 5,000 items, but goes way down to spot 60 when considering just the last 1,000 items.
• CNET is being shared less. So are the Apple-related blogs (Good for reality, I’d say :D).
• Check out the Gray Family blog – I’d expect the twins posting soon
• Remember, people can never be reduced to just numbers

Oh, and some graphs:

Update: Apologize for the shitty quality. The theme is resizing them to fit the shadow. Will fix asap

Both are typical power law graphs – a few sites contribute a lot of stories, and a lot of sites contribute very few stories. Pretty normal for something related to the internet, I’d say Note that I’ve excluded Louis’ blog from the charts – would’ve skewed ‘em too much.

(Also, notice that the new graphs look way, way different from the ones I used to put here before. That’s because I’ve switched – from Office 2007 to the R language for producing my charts. And, I’m loving the new way, to say the least. Thanks to the brilliant folks at Mining Labs for bringing it to my notice )

So, what do you see here? Your notes? Louis Gray’s Notes? Leave ‘em in the comments

Needs no introduction, I guess. Robert Scoble, rumored to be a nascent version of the borg with a drone dedicated to every site.

Here’s the wordle of his last 3000 tweets:

“Just” and “now” make an appearance (as they seem to be doing in almost every major web 2.0ish person’s tweets), and then there’s the meta stuff - “Twitter” and “FriendFeed”. “People”, “Video”, and “going” are pretty big too, so lots of tweets about people he’s going to interview China gets a visible mention due to his longish trip there (and since I’m considering only the last 3000 tweets). “See”, “Obama”, “right”, “cool”, “like”, “love”, “Great”, “New”, “blog”, “iPhone”, “Nokia” also get mentioned.

And no, don’t worry – The Statbot is not becoming Wordle-only Stay tuned for more stuff