The Twitter Life Track

So... months after the lists feature was enabled in Twitter, I finally put everyone I'm following into a list. While doing this I discovered a really interesting pattern. Because the people I'm following are arranged chronologically, I could actually track where I was "mentally" at a given point in time based on the type of people I chose to follow. It was like a Twitter Life Timeline -- even more revealing than my tweets.

I started off with my sister who taught me how to actually use twitter (especially since my friends and contacts weren't tweeting yet). At first I focused primarily on environmentalism and green posts (probably because that was my area of expertise at work). Then post-layoff, my recovery phase, my focus shifted to positive thinking, life coaching and spirituality. Once I recovered (or at least recovered enough to move on) I switched to online marketing, business and finance -- apparently it was time to think about making some money. There was also a stint when I was trying to get my book finished and I added a lot of writers & publishers. And finally, there was a focus on following local people, progressives, and non-profits.

Now, it's a bit more random -- whenever someone of interest follows me, I reciprocate, but it has been interesting to follow my Twitter life track. I'm about 1 1/2 years old in Twitter age. Wonder what I'll discover next year.