Analyze This: Twitter Edition

According to AnalyzeWords‘ sweet website, here’s my personality based on the last 636 words I tweeted:

Spacy/Valley Girl High?! ME?! DON’T THEY UNDERSTAND SARCASM?

Ha, while they’re at understanding sarcasm they should also learn to spell spacey. Technically “spacy” is correct, but who spells it like that?! PS, dictionary defn:

The AnalyzeWords project analyzes data using the text analysis program Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) originally developed at the University of Texas at Austin and the Auckland Medical School in New Zealand. Unlike most traditional word counting methods, LIWC focuses on the almost-invisible function or junk words that we rely on. Junk words include pronouns (I, you they), articles (a, the, an), prepositions (to, with, for) and other small words that typically hold together more content-heavy nouns and regular verbs.

Across dozens of studies, junk words have proven to be powerful markers of peoples psychological states. When individuals use the word I, for example, they are briefly paying attention to themselves. People experiencing high levels of physical or mental pain automatically orient towards themselves and begin using I-words at higher rates. I-use, then, can reflect signs of depression, stress or insecurity.

Other junk words can signal arrogance, social closeness, deception, leadership and a wide range of other psychological states. Because our research team has already collected tremendous amounts of language and psychological data, we have a fairly good idea of which words best tap psychological processes.

This is an ongoing investigation. Consequently, we are saving all Twitter samples that people have submitted. All data we collect will remain confidential. No indentifying information from Twitter, Facebook, or other source that you may be linked to will be shared with any commercial enterprises.

Try it! Post your results/reactions in comments!