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47,632 tweets

Recent:

  1. Remember when we were pissed off about the fact that the decision makers at Twitter didn’t use the platform?
  2. Turned off open DMs here - I’m just getting too much spam.
  3. Wow. Lots of porn less than 20 tweets down on one of the top 5 trending topics.
  4. Who ever would have thought that Elmo would become the most influential driving force in the uptake of federated social media?
  5. If this is what he had to do to goose DAU numbers, I’m not really sure what the follow up could possibly be.
  6. I feel like we’re going to spend years rehabilitating the phrase “code review”
  7. This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a goddamn twitter poll.
  8. We are averaging about one "tears in the rain" hot take every 1-2 minutes.
  9. I know I sometimes post during stressful events to remind you that it's ok to stop doomscrolling and log out for the night, because Twitter will still be here in the morning. It *is* ok to stop doomscrolling and log out for the night. However...
  10. There is so much good content on Twitter. This site had better survive.
  11. linktr.ee is kind of having a moment.

Popular:

  1. Well, this will be a nice little litmus test....assuming we still need a litmus test next month.
  2. 6 hours later, I have replaced my 15 line perl script with a 500 meg Docker image and a few hundred lines of python. It works almost as well as what I had before, too!
  3. I really liked the period between "AOL Keyword ___" and facebook.com/___
  4. From someone at lunch: 10 years ago, would you have believed that the major phone operating system battle would be Linux vs BSD?
  5. Oh. My. God. imgur.com/gallery/TmNFU Absolutely amazing hidden messages (urls) in Archer Season 6.

I’ve retweeted other tweets 4,937 times (10.4%)

Most Retweeted

  1. quince 116 retweets
  2. GreatDismal 65 retweets
  3. keyboardio 53 retweets
  4. miyagawa 46 retweets
  5. kellan 45 retweets
  6. anildash 40 retweets
  7. harper 33 retweets
  8. waxpancake 31 retweets
  9. Pinboard 30 retweets
  10. hondanhon 27 retweets

Most Retweeted (Last 12 months)

Replies and Mentions

52.5% of my tweets are replies (×24,989)

Most Replies To

  1. miyagawa 680 replies
  2. hondanhon 559 replies
  3. harper 471 replies
  4. rstevens 355 replies
  5. mwichary 308 replies

Most Replies To (Last 12 months)

  1. kevinriggle 2 replies
  2. thingskatedid 2 replies
  3. rjbs 1 reply

I’ve sent someone a mention 1,281 times (2.7%)

62.0% of the links I’ve posted are using the https: protocol (3,563 of 5,743)

100.0% of the links I’ve posted in the last 12 months are using the https: protocol (4 of 4)

Top Domains

  1. twitter.com 1654 tweets
  2. github.com 171 tweets
  3. google.com 112 tweets
  4. amazon.com 100 tweets
  5. youtube.com 81 tweets
  6. wikipedia.org 77 tweets
  7. flickr.com 73 tweets
  8. bit.ly 71 tweets
  9. fsck.com 62 tweets
  10. instagr.am 55 tweets

Top Hosts

  1. twitter.com 1639 tweets
  2. github.com 157 tweets
  3. www.amazon.com 78 tweets
  4. www.youtube.com 71 tweets
  5. bit.ly 71 tweets
  6. instagr.am 55 tweets
  7. www.flickr.com 54 tweets
  8. en.wikipedia.org 50 tweets
  9. www.kickstarter.com 49 tweets
  10. www.theverge.com 44 tweets

My tweets have been given about ♻️ 23,352 retweets and ❤️ 111,549 likes

Top 5 Emoji Used in Tweets

  1. ❤️ used 256 times on 53 tweets
  2. 🟩 used 145 times on 16 tweets
  3. 🥧 used 140 times on 1 tweets
  4. ⬛ used 121 times on 14 tweets
  5. 🎉 used 99 times on 3 tweets

118 unique emoji on 230 tweets (0.5% of all tweets***)

Top 5 Hashtags

  1. oscon used 28 times
  2. kindle used 25 times
  3. firstworldproblems used 24 times
  4. xoxofest used 16 times
  5. yxyy used 12 times

815 hashtags on 814 tweets (1.9% of all tweets***)

Top 5 Swear Words

  1. s_it used 163 times on 162 tweets
  2. d_mn used 162 times
  3. h_ll used 122 times
  4. f_ck used 54 times
  5. s_itty used 43 times

731 swear words on 726 tweets (1.7% of all tweets***)

***: does not include retweets