What words are used on twitter?

As part of my research it is clear I need to study the most commonly used words and see can these help in creating music. There is an interesting post on the 500 most used words. However using 500 would be both impractical and hard to portray musically. These are some I have chosen that might be practical to use:

love=27483
work=26924
lol=24305
great=21132
thanks=19328
night=18223
morning=14292
better=13183
best=11155
hope=11093
nice=10894
yes=10758
fun=10413
happy=10234
feel=9911
little=9876
bad=9768
awesome=8891
big=8850
cool=8535
old=8523
die=8152
listening=7733
wow=7632
haha=7566
pretty=7450
game=7439
music=6727
job=6339
friends=6324
hate=6287
sorry=5862
friend=5207
amazing=5095
funny=4935
glad=4927
song=4773
party=4700
shit=4668
tired=4655
super=4168
crazy=4114
birthday=3966
omg=3830
sick=3691
sweet=3672
rock=3586
article=3585
beautiful=3280
rain=3207
rest=3202
running=3195

Read more: http://techland.com/2009/06/08/the-500-most-frequently-used-words-on-twitter/#ixzz14zBDy2Zz

Displaying Data from the Web

Another interesting installation that I found in my research was Listening post. Listening post reads data from chat rooms and blogs in real time and displays these uncensored as art.



There are many justifications for this project but the most interesting I find is 'Listening Post allows you to experience an extraordinary snapshot of the internet and gain a great sense of the humanity behind the data'. I would like to reflect a human aspect in my project in a similar fashion.

Emotive Web

One of the sites I was investigating was wefeelfine.org This is an interesting page, it categorizes different blog posts according to emotions and other factors. It then portrays these in a an interesting visual interface (which even includes web). For an example, check the video:



Not only this an interesting approach to analysing data from blogs but it is done using Flash. Not only this but they have an API available. It might be possible to integrate this and the flash midi server to create Generative work. This is the next Angle I will be studying. I finally got the Midi server up and running and that's what I'm currently working on.