I recently came across TweetPsych, which provides a psychological profile of a person based on his or her tweets.
I think it is a pretty neat idea because as its creator Dan Zarella states, TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform.
I’ve been enjoying analyzing most of my twitter friends accounts,
but on the serious side of things, I also wonder if TweetPsych could be used in the hiring process?
There is a lot of buzz about how companies are checking the prospective employees feeds like their Twitter feeds or their FriendFeed to determine what are they up to in their off time, or even to see if they are using how are they effectively using their time during work hours.
I would like to know your opinion,
Would you do a TweetPsych profile on someone you’re thinking of hiring?
Not that you want to hire me, but just in case you want to know, and want to learn that I focus a lot on work, my Twitter user name is @ncienfuegos – My wife says she didn’t need that tool to know that….
So, here is what it says about my twitter feeds
http://www.tweetpsych.com/?name=ncienfuegos
