In the last 3 hours, Chad Scira‘s project #tweetcloud has generated +10,000 uses and in the process added the same amount of followers to his twitter feed. What I love about TweetCloud is that it helps to reinforce the truth that the internet, esp Twitter, is screechingly human. It is fueled in many ways by our quest for self-examination and in turn, sharing those findings with others.

And at the same time, if we look at the words that most people tweet, our use is also rooted in phatic communication, making noise for the social sake of proving we still exist.