Comments on: You Are What You Tweet? So Says Brand New Twitter App TweetPsych…

By: Larry H.

Larry H. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:51:35 +0000

My scores have to be biased due to my tweeting about giveaways and such..although that is a part of my personality and I’m sure Tweetpsych takes that into consideration.

I am now following you on twitter, but you haven’t tweeted since July 2nd. Are you on vacation? I just found your site and luv it :/

By: Chandra Michaels

Chandra Michaels — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:00:06 +0000

Dr. John – thank you so much for pointing us to your post.

I concede that from a scientific perspective, the implementation and usability is not where it could/should be. But I think/hope I was pretty clear that my fascination is about what a tool like this could do. The potential for it to be useful. AND the potential for it to be destructive – with or without refinement. Making it more accurate only heightens my sense of concern about how it might be used.

Still, I submit the implementation, or perhaps, execution of the launch from a marketing and awareness perspective was overwhelmingly impressive.

As an artist, most of my audience will not gravitate to this post because it’s not why or how they connect with me. However, the fact that it helped me connect with someone new who I wouldn’t have met otherwise, made it worth my time to post this piece.

I enjoyed reading your review and I definitely look forward to spending more time on your website.

By: John M. Grohol, PsyD

John M. Grohol, PsyD — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:48:03 +0000

Great idea, poorly implemented. See my review and critique of the service here:

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/06/18/putting-cool-ahead-of-science-tweetpsych/

Needs more psychology and more science before you could ever make a thing like this truly useful.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:33:53 +0000

Also, I love the “You are what you tweet”. So funny!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:54:01 +0000

Umm…I think it is verging on creepy. I don’t use Twitter, but I tend to already be self-conscious about what I write, so I think knowing that there is an extra layer of analysis that anyone can access would make me that much more reserved about what I say. Hypothetically, that is. Since I don’t Tweet. (I can barely bring myself to write “tweet” in that context. It’s odd how I am fine with adopting one thing but not the other. Couldn’t do myspace, but am fine with FB. Not into Twitter, but might be into whatever is next.) Anyway, I think the concept is brilliant, but I like people to try to figure out on their own whether I am low on emotions, with high taste sensations and very narcissistic.

By: hannah

hannah — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:07:21 +0000

well the fact that my boss HAS twitter makes it awkward haha but he is low on emotions (so true) high taste sentations (have no clue haha) and very narcisstic (duh!) hahah..as far as mine TweetPsych says i have a positive affect,somewhat abstract thought , i often talk about the physical characteristics of things and i often discuss positive sensations and feelings.

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By: Chandra Michaels

Chandra Michaels — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:03:12 +0000

Yes Hannah! You’re right…several degrees and some years later, putting all that education to good use

So, what did your TP profile say about you? What did it say about your boss???

By: hannah

hannah — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:48:09 +0000

i think its very interesting. and of course you are interested in this Chandra, its your psych degree at work )

i think its fun and novel but sometimes can be TMIfor example, i just tweetpsyched my “boss” ..hmmm!

ps i put my blog to private but it will be back to general view in a few weeks. just have to send the “haters” / fake people away and make sure they are gone

x0x0

By: Chandra Michaels

Chandra Michaels — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:24:44 +0000

Hey Steph – glad to have you here! BTW – I talked about you on the Sugarluxe Facebook Page the other day. Don’t know if you’re on there, but I reposted your blog post and wanted you to know how much I appreciated it.

And I mentioned how much I loved your site and the name Domestic Urbanite!

As for the Twitter App – AGREE COMPLETELY – totally amazing concept.

I’m quite sure as soon as more people know about it, there will be those who bash it. But every tool, every place online, can be abused by people with malicious intent.

I’m VERY interested to see how this develops.

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By: Steph.

Steph. — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:08:52 +0000

Fabulous post. The app is amazing. Very insightful. For me it gave me a 145 score, and said I talk a lot about myself. Since its Twitter, its not that bad. =)