I have been on twitter for almost ten years. Twitter has changed a lot in that time and my enthusiasm for the platform has waned a bit over the years, but I still find it to be a compelling communication platform. Initially I used it to share about the more mundane, personal parts of life and my stresses as I finished graduate school. Lately it’s become more professionally-focused (most of the time) and more reflective of the many things that are happening in the world (but with important dog pictures also). I have met lots of people through twitter as well as listened and learned from thousands of people who I would never have met in my day-to-day life. It has helped me gain a wider audience for my academic work and has allowed me to share pictures of my awesome dog with strangers and friends alike.
I just hit 10,000 tweets (if I did this correctly then the tweet linking to this post would be number 10,000). And I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to go back through my twitter archive and get a sense of what all of those tweets were about and how I tweeted. (The analysis that follows is actually only on my first 9,945 tweets because I had to request my tweets a couple weeks ago and do the actual analysis.) This was also a fun R exercise for me1.
Cynthia D'Angelo 