What are the people of Twitter twittering about?

9/1/09; 11:57:02 PM Pacific

Who	Recent tweet	When	Count	RT
	dougw: Friends are my panacea.	11:50 PM	4,998	RT
	ded: @evan http://twitter.com/ded/statuses/3548653843	11:27 PM twitter	5,720	RT
	ded: take 3: http://bit.ly/kcrUz (photo)	11:15 PM dustindiaz	5,720	RT
	dougw: @kevinthau for the record I was more impressed with your devotion to exercise as a family man than a senior citizen. You can teach me a lot.	11:12 PM	4,997	RT
	evan: Who doesn't have fancy pants? http://bit.ly/hBYLP	11:01 PM twitter	3,561	RT
	crystal: http://twitpic.com/g6alv - @Alissa and @delbius at the break up dinner	10:31 PM twitpic	14,285	RT
	abdur: Correction: @zoecello, clients should have autocomplete for screen names.	10:26 PM	9,120	RT
	kevinweil: Packing for Nantucket, listening to Kanye... it's working. Switching to RATM if I continue to get tired, we'll see what @elizabeth thinks.	10:22 PM	1,418	RT
	meangrape: I quit. No more Twitter for me tonight.	10:22 PM	3,351	RT
	rk: @al3x the athletic thing is not new for many of us- we only recently started doing it together.	10:22 PM	3,801	RT
	meangrape: Err @zoe, not @zeo. (See, if I try THREE times, I can get it correct. Sometimes).	10:21 PM	3,351	RT
	meangrape: @abdur She's @zeocello, actually. (Also amazing, yes).	10:21 PM	3,351	RT
	goldman: @abdur sure but it's not real kickboxing. it's an aerobics class with some air punching.	10:15 PM	1,073,373	RT
	dougw: @al3x I don't really understand either. That's the primary reason I keep on. Questions seem unnecessary. Wait, I get it @gregpass.	10:11 PM	5,001	RT
	abdur: Listening to @ZoeKeating http://bit.ly/BYp2M she is amazing...	10:09 PM bit	9,120	RT
	abdur: @goldman wow, can i join you?	10:08 PM	9,120	RT
	goldman: Glad I got convinced to go to kickboxing class. Feeling endorphinial.	9:53 PM	1,073,295	RT
	biz: great run tonight with the twitter team and others—looks like I had a fastest mile in there somewhere according to nike+	9:52 PM	1,203,897	RT
	abdur: Checking out Jupiter and 4 of its moons tonight...	9:30 PM	9,120	RT
	delbius: "When did they work out perpetual motion?" "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure I've got it."	9:29 PM	5,634	RT
	jkalucki: Fox 3. Query away. And, here comes the result stream... Oh my that's a lot of data.	9:27 PM	2,103	RT
	jkalucki: Fox 2. And, and, and, and, unparseable items.	9:21 PM	2,103	RT
	jkalucki: Oh, and an immediate full GC.	9:19 PM	2,103	RT
	jkalucki: Despite the low blood pressure, thinking twice about running this query in production. Firing up a staging instance...	9:18 PM	2,103	RT
	jkalucki: Generating a query with 4 million logical OR terms. Yeah, this is going to work.	9:14 PM	2,103	RT
	jfray: Long strange day, and now it ends. Tomorrow I meet with Barrow Neurological to see what the course of action is RE: surgery. Now, I sleep.	9:13 PM	1,114	RT
	gregpass: While hunting brûlot recipes: "Claret is the drink for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." (Dr Johnson)	9:05 PM	2,559	RT
	rael: I have nothing against Paul Auster per se; it's just that he's nothing at all like Jane Austen.	8:53 PM	7,538	RT
	yukarim: My favorite Toshi is on Twitter! Welcome <3 ! @NOZA104 your daughter is so grown up and adorable!　SFに何時来るの？また日本に行く時、宜しく〜（一杯飲みましょう:)）	8:53 PM	2,389	RT
	jessverr: "You're hell bent on making this a remarkable story." -@noradio in response to an anecdote about the girl who won the text msg championship	8:41 PM	2,938	RT
	al3x: My coworkers' recent athletic kick is admirable, really. I've no idea who these people are and why they run all the time, but: admirable.	8:39 PM	13,686	RT
	alissa: At @delbius's, watching cat videos on YouTube. Uh huh. You're jealous.	8:21 PM	3,600	RT
	mzsanford: I'm not religious but I am considering Matthew 6:28	8:07 PM	2,652	RT
	ronpepsi: Well, we can solve this bottleneck the old fashioned way, right? I mean, by letting someone else deal with it.	8:02 PM	2,014	RT
	jessverr: OH: "QVC and the GirlScouts run shockingly high margin businesses."	8:01 PM	2,937	RT
	rael: RT @wycats Inbox Zero is important for the same reason that CI Zero is important.	7:57 PM	7,537	RT
	jessverr: @kevinthau hahah, tonight was filled with misphrases (like mine, for the second time). But, really glad you came to run with us!	7:53 PM	2,936	RT
	kevinthau: Running next to @dougw tonight he told me, "I hope I still excercise when Im old"	7:31 PM	4,346	RT
	Magnuson: Caltrain engine sputtered out on the tracks earlier. Now there's a huge delay. http://twitpic.com/g5rvy	7:29 PM twitpic	1,350	RT
	mrtall: Home. Jet-lagged. Near death. See you tomorrow.	7:12 PM	3,057	RT
	jkalucki: And a double red donation to round things out. What a day.	6:59 PM	2,103	RT
	krissy: Trying not to laugh at haley explain how she flunked her timed math test today. 1 answer right out of 14. Teacher wrote a huge "F" and " ...	6:58 PM	7,449	RT
	evan: "I need to justify my furtive act."	6:42 PM	3,561	RT
	abdur: Backwards-ass school in Missouri thinks evolution is a "religious issue". Bans shirts ... of evolution. http://bit.ly/13HJUB (via @markos)	6:38 PM thinkprogress	9,118	RT
	sean: RT @biz "Talking 10 years if Blogger with some if the current team http://yfrog.com/0zipwj"	6:23 PM yfrog	1,440	RT
	rsarver: Anyone have a battery charger for a Canon Powershot SD300 and are in SF?	6:08 PM	2,150	RT
	mhegge: Unlike folks a few streets over trying to pawn off their dated kitchen chairs http://bit.ly/vwijT and telephone polls http://bit.ly/3ThtYm	5:51 PM flickr	3,022	RT
	biz: Talking 10 years if Blogger with some if the current team http://yfrog.com/0zipwj	5:48 PM yfrog	1,202,778	RT
	mhegge: Our neighbours give away the best stuff http://flic.kr/p/6URvdY	5:47 PM flickr	3,022	RT
	ronpepsi: I think it is the driver. Keep it real, man.	5:43 PM	2,014	RT
	ronpepsi: Someone mocked the incessant cell phone gabber with a YouTube video and she was oblivious. Funny but also very annoying.	5:40 PM	2,014	RT
	evan: Ian at @sweetridesf. http://twitpic.com/g5cxi	5:37 PM twitpic	3,553	RT
	delbius: Was given a frozen banana by @sweetridesf. Sweet.	5:35 PM	5,635	RT
	netik: burningman, without the dust, on ustream: http://bit.ly/4nYsem	5:34 PM ustream	4,322	RT
	al3x: "a shameful level of statefulness", wrote @technomancy, endearingly.	5:33 PM	13,685	RT
	mutgoff: enjoying free @sweetridesf with @Matthew http://yfrog.com/587y9qj	5:30 PM yfrog	12,328	RT
	evan: Getting a Sweet Treat, I think.	5:25 PM	3,552	RT
	bs: RT @scalzi "MINUTE 30 OF GMAIL OUTAGE THE CITIES ARE IN FLAMES AND PEOPLE EATING PETS TO SURVIVE. TO FUTURE GENERATIONS: WE MEANT WELL"	5:25 PM	34,096	RT
	mutgoff: RT @che "hey Twitter HQ! @SweetRideSF (Mandy) has her sweets truck downstairs in front of the office right now! stop by for a treat. :)"	5:23 PM	12,328	RT
	al3x: Nevermind, Terminal style switching updated for Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/OLMcC. If you haven't tried it, give it a go!	5:12 PM omnigroup	13,686	RT
	evan: Hey you, stop replicating your cache. Just give up.	5:11 PM	3,550	RT
	evan: Me: "It's a hole you dug yourself." @rk: "I know, I found a yak at the bottom."	4:57 PM	3,550	RT
	stevej: RT @stacy: Let's try that again: OMG! Muni needs this like no other: http://bit.ly/2LnWVX	4:41 PM sfgate	5,527	RT
	al3x: Could some AppleScript brain out there get this working under Snow Leopard? I like my SSH sessions in color. http://bit.ly/OLMcC	4:37 PM omnigroup	13,686	RT
	rael: "Who loves ya baby?" [http://savalas.tv/]	4:32 PM savalas	7,539	RT
	santojay: RT @rk "I'm glad gmail is fixed, so that people will stop whining. Next time, go outside and play in the street."	4:29 PM	3,450	RT
	ev: At @blogger press event at @google SF, celebrating 10 yrs.	4:24 PM	1,191,489	RT
	rk: Today's work: round robin whack-a-mole yak shaving.	4:25 PM	3,807	RT
	evan: "Did you meet dick?" - @gregpass	4:22 PM	3,548	RT
	kevinthau: Worthy cause for a friend @Lammerding whose son suffers from a rare generic disorder. Please give/retweet :-) at http://Lammerding.org	4:17 PM lammerding	4,345	RT
	biz: planning to join @sftechruns for a casual 8k or so starting at Twitter HQ tonight at 6:30pm—who's in?	3:39 PM	1,202,243	RT
	mzsanford: Operations Rule 28: Your reason for using a shared login is not good enough.	3:30 PM	2,651	RT
	jfray: James McDonald of the Dodgers has the same pitching mechanics as Felix Rodriguez (nee' Giants)	3:21 PM	1,115	RT
	evan: Release thrift-0.0.810255.1 to Rubyforge? y. Ruby 1.9-compatible Thrift library build, thanks to patches from @beisenberg.	3:20 PM	3,545	RT
	goldman: @abdur oops	3:11 PM	1,071,712	RT
	noradio: My running is about to get so effing *social* http://twitpic.com/g4qov	2:54 PM twitpic	2,516	RT
	rk: I'm glad gmail is fixed, so that people will stop whining. Next time, go outside and play in the street.	2:51 PM	3,807	RT
	al3x: All we are / is all that you'd love to be / All we know / is hate and machinery / We're engineers	2:46 PM	13,687	RT
	dougw: Gmail going down is the new sick leave. It's like free vacation.	2:42 PM	4,999	RT
	rael: RT @alexedelman "cookie me"	2:35 PM	7,540	RT
	abdur: Who steped on the couch? http://twitpic.com/g4mw3	2:28 PM twitpic	9,118	RT
	anamitra: RT @noradio "To whomever is "letting it mellow" in the men's bathroom's urinal: You appear to be fairly dehydrated."	2:27 PM	2,449	RT
	stop: Seems as though Google temporarily found a way to get everyone to Inbox Zero at once. http://yfrog.com/08iirvj	2:23 PM yfrog	9,574	RT
	meangrape: I can't construct a coherent ranty tweet about "DEFAULT NULL" in database schemas. Swear out loud and punch someone for me.	2:21 PM	3,343	RT
	mhegge: RT @1889ca "RT @scalzi: MINUTE 30 OF GMAIL OUTAGE THE CITIES ARE IN FLAMES AND PEOPLE EATING PETS TO SURVIVE. TO FUTURE GENERATIONS: WE ..."	2:20 PM	3,022	RT
	noradio: To whomever is "letting it mellow" in the men's bathroom's urinal: You appear to be fairly dehydrated.	2:15 PM	2,515	RT
	goldman: God help us if it's ever hot in San Francisco and Gmail is down at the same time.	2:10 PM	1,071,432	RT
	yukarim: RT @rael "RT @ginatrapani: Ben & Jerry's renames Chubby Hubby ice cream Hubby Hubby in support of same-sex marriages in VT Awesome http:..."	2:10 PM	2,385	RT
	goldman: RT @jhuber "Sorry for the GMail problems. Service is back for many, but not all. IMAP & iGoogle gadget do work. More status here: http:/..."	2:07 PM	1,071,445	RT
	rael: RT @ginatrapani: Ben & Jerry's renames Chubby Hubby ice cream Hubby Hubby in support of same-sex marriages in VT Awesome http://bit.ly/DMNKP	2:02 PM benjerry	7,539	RT
	rael: It seems someone — namely Google — had the good sense to finally turn off email.	1:51 PM	7,539	RT
	al3x: RT @sbma44: The new Sunlight Labs site just launched! Are you a developer? Help open our government: http://www.sunlightlabs.com	1:48 PM sunlightlabs	13,686	RT
	rsarver: Nice bday surprise. @GobbaGobbaHey made a very special delivery bc @devon told him how much I loved their stuff. They both rock! thx again	1:38 PM	2,148	RT
	kevinweil: RT @evan: It always feels like a win when Gmail is down, but Twitter is up.	1:35 PM	1,403	RT
	delbius: Blessing an inordinate number of hearts.	1:32 PM	5,629	RT
	evan: It always feels like a win when Gmail is down, but Twitter is up.	1:05 PM	3,540	RT
	rael: Um, I can has Gmail?	1:00 PM	7,538	RT
	sean: Dear tweet jackers: don't jack Japanese tweets. A white bimbo icon next to "I ordered snow leopard" in Japanese is just goofy.	1:00 PM	1,441	RT
	robey: @evan a queue dumper and packer... scrooge isn't ready yet. :)	12:59 PM	2,328	RT
	evan: Why is there no Thrift mirror at http://git.apache.org/ ?	12:57 PM apache	3,539	RT