love, awesome, dude, time, watching, gonna, nice, yeah, shit

Earlier, over the holidays, I went to ICodeForLove.com's Tweet Cloud page and did a yearlong assessment of my Twitter activity. It showed me, in order, what words I most used this year. I actually use Twitter more functionally than most, I think, so the list reflected that activity. For instance, I'm a huge Ugomo user, and I use Twitter to track all of my riding. I also have my Xbox 360 hooked up to twitter via the Xbox Live Nation Twitter page and my Xbox regularly tweets what I'm up to on Xbox.

Here's an example of a Ugomo Tweet:

• #bike 35.13 mi 2 hr 4 min 45 sec 145 bpm 88 rpm 49 recovery @ugomo

Here's a couple of examples of what XLN tweets when I'm playing an Xbox Game online:

• Xbox Live: jeffsmall is currently Away. Last seen 5 minutes ago playing Xbox 360 Dashboard (Xbox Live Nation)
• Xbox Live: jeffsmall is currently Online. Playing Halo 3: ODST. Solo on Normal Campaign on Coastal Highway. (Xbox Live Nation)

Notice how those tweets will always contain several words? "bike", "recovery", "Xbox", "Live", etc?

So with that in mind, here are the top... oh... 60 or so words I used this year on Twitter:

xbox, live, playing, love, jeffsmall, currently, nation, ride, online, awesome, dude, time, watching, gonna, bike, nice, video, yeah, shit, totally, home, week, dashboard, okay, wait, morning, blog, post, cool, getting, seriously, looking, little, tonight, looks, wanna, read, weekend, actually, people, facebook, completely, tweet, miles, night, hahaha, look, riding, beach, thanks, seen, book, google, sweet, real, minutes, comics, marvel, days, recovery

Okay, let's do a little "filtering" on this, shall we? Since those services automatically tweet with a set list of words, let's try and filter out some of the "automatic words" that we know I'm not tweeting:

xbox, live, playing, love, jeffsmall, currently, nation, ride, online, awesome, dude, time, watching, gonna, bike, nice, video, yeah, shit, totally, home, week, dashboard, okay, wait, morning, blog, post, cool, getting, seriously, looking, little, tonight, looks, wanna, read, weekend, actually, people, facebook, completely, tweet, miles, night, hahaha, look, riding, beach, thanks, seen, book, google, sweet, real, minutes, comics, marvel, days, recovery

So there you have it. Filter out the words that I automatically tweet (that is, the words I don't actually tweet), and the number one word I used last year was "love".

Pretty cool, huh?

In fact, when I look at the sum total of my tweets from 2009, I'm struck by one overwhelming impression:

"I'm a pretty happy guy"

Apparently, I love things, things are cool, things are awesome, I say "thanks" a lot, and I'm generally a positively actionable guy ("gonna getting wanna looking riding"...).

You know, that feels pretty damn good. There are no, "sucks" or "fucks" or any other negative thoughts emanating from my stream of tweets. Just a bunch of... well... happy shit!

A Happy 2009, FTW!