I recently came across TweetPsych, a tool that analyzes linguistics to psychologically profile an individual based on their Twitter updated and conversations. I was immediately intrigued since I use Twitter on a fairly regular basis to promote articles, stay up-to-date on my niche topics I like to follow, and to see what others are up to on a day-to-day basis.

What my TweetPsych analysis revealed was very interesting. It was very accurate as describing the type of person I am, what I like to talk about, and the way I think and speak when conversing with others.

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. For more information, read Dan Zarrella’s blog post explaining TweetPsych.

Without further ado, here are the results from my Twitter profile. As you can see the bulk of my Twitter updates are related to the workplace, and self-improvement in the business field.