I think the most powerful potential feature of a system like TweetPsych is its ability to match people based on their cognitive processes, so I’ve added two features to the still beta TweetPsych.
People That Think Like You
When you generate a profile for yourself or someone else, TweetPsych will also show you a list of 5 users who it believes share similar psychological characteristics. This matching is not done topically, therefore the other users you’re presented with may not Tweet about the same things as you.
These users come only from the list of users that the system has analyzed so far, so the results will get better as it analyzes more accounts. Starting this week, I am automatically profiling accounts starting with a few prioritized lists, including most ReTweeted users and most followed users to help build a large dataset for comparison.
Site Profiling
The second feature I added this weekend is site profiling. When you enter a URL TweetPsych will create a psychological profile of the content on that page and match it against its database of user profiles, returning the 50 closest matches.
Again, this matching is not done on a topical basis, meaning the users presented might not tweet about the same subjects the page is about. The goal is to help you find users that may be mentally aligned with the psycho-graphic profile of the web page you provided.
And just to reiterate, TweetPsych is still beta stuff and I’m aware there are issues, specifically around explaining and presenting the features in a more understandable way, but my first priorities were making the system stable under the huge traffic load (and my host MediaTemple has been awesome helping me) and fleshing out the potential power of the technology. I’m very open to new feature suggestions as I continue working on TweetPsych.
I am contemplating the possibility of releasing an API but I’m still thinking about how to handle the possibly high server resource demands. What features would you like to see in an API?
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June 23rd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
As someone interested in psychology I find this fascinating. Amazing the spin-offs that have come about all because of Twitter.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Awesome concept Dan.
Impressed with the way it works, I hope the “profiling more profiles” gets done soon so its “open” to all.
Cheers !
Mani Kaarthik
DailySEOblog.com
June 25th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Interesting tool. I just tried it out and was surprised at the results, but then again, I wasn’t that surprised because I tend to use Twitter in a very specialized way most of the time. I think it will also turn out more complete results had I had more than 1000 updates.
And once this tool gets developed a bit more, I imagine it would be a very helpful analytic tool for brands but also for bloggers looking to find their audience on Twitter. I would love to use it for my Live Fix blog because it would help me analyze and better understand the tweeting that goes on during live music concerts. Any suggestions on how I could use it to do experiments now?
Thanks, Dan!
July 15th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
This is amazing. I have not tried it yet, but I sure will. Interesting concept. It’s always nice to get to converse with people who think like you(to some extent). Glad I stumbled upon your site.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:07 am
a facebookpsych beta would not only give off a larger range of data but I think it would be far more interesting
October 29th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Dear Dan, is TweetPsych language independent? I'm tweeting in French, Dutch and English. Please your answer on Twitter.com/mgroenevelt
Kind regards, Margriet
October 29th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Dear Dan, is TweetPsych language independent? I'm tweeting in French, Dutch and English. Please your answer on Twitter.com/mgroenevelt
Kind regards, Margriet