So some mad genius (okay, he’s my husband) analyzed 15,000 tweets this week and made a Wordle of the top 100 things Twitterers claim to be giving up for Lent.
For what other kinds of things do you think Twitterology of this sort might be helpful? Can it actually give us an accurate picture of the spiritual zeitgeist of a (small, technologically savvy) group of people?
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Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches literature and composition courses there. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46). 
Uh, accurate? I dunno about that much, but it’s pretty amusing. Good thing I didn’t give up being entertained for Lent…