While I’m dissecting the Verizon DBIR and the Mandiant M-Trends report, plus preparing for my talk to the NAISG Dallas chapter next week (“Evolution of an IRT”), I thought I’d take a look at some relevant Twitter data.
Storification
First, I assembled a Storify to document a conversation on Twitter today related to those two reports. Take a look at DBIR and M-Trends: Different Perspectives. Credit to @bond_alexander for kicking it off.
Twitter dataviz
I also generated the below visualization using xefer. It shows activity by hour of the day, by day of the week, and the ratios of tweets / replies / retweets, all in US Central time (GMT-6 or -5 during DST).
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A few things jumped out at me:
- I usually go offline around 11pm and don’t get going again until 7 or 8am the next day. Typical sleep cycle.
- Twitter activity declines during the noon (lunch) hour.
- During the 5pm hour, I have very little to say. This represents the time I wrap up my daily work, drive home, and see my family.
- Activity drops off during the weekend, when I spend time with the family or generally relax (e.g. gaming).
- Thursday and Friday evenings slow down considerably compared to Monday through Wednesday evenings. I know why that happens on Friday (going out), but not Thursday.
- Wow, I chat a lot. But if you follow me, you probably knew that already.
Blocking Trending Topics
It may be time to block the "trends" box on Twitter completely. I just despair even more for society when I look at it.
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 23, 2012Lots of us can’t stand to read the “trending topics” on Twitter. They usually revolve around celebrity “news” and other useless bits. If you have Adblock Plus for Chrome or Firefox, though, just add the following two lines to your filter list:
twitter.com##.trends-inner
twitter.com##.wide-trends
Other tweets this week
A few relevant Twitter postings:
Tried create.visual.ly from @visually but the infographic themes are kinda terrible. Almost illegible, really.
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 23, 2012@gattaca starting to think that, given my needs, I could switch to two EC2 nodes in different availability regions for not much more money
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 23, 2012Just catching up on the @gklst thing. Seriously, why do dudes still pull this in 2012? storify.com/charlesarthur/… #sexism
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 23, 2012>40 years of "cyber wake up calls": ctovision.com/2012/03/avoidi…
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 23, 2012Found another stash of books. Up to 29 (!) on my reading list...
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 23, 2012GPS ruling is "hard" on the FBI—and that's a feature, not a bug arst.ch/t0d via @arstechnica
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 22, 2012Don't send me useless data, and don't try to defend it with "well you know what we mean." If I did, you wouldn't need to send the data.
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 22, 2012Crikey! It's the VPN Hunter! vpnhunter.com
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 21, 2012Created a quick #storify of yesterday's Information Diet webcast by @oreillymedia and @cjoh: sfy.co/icF #infodiet
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 21, 2012Seriously? What century is this? Who at the Boston API Jam thought this would be a good idea?! blog.cloudmine.me/post/196396923… #sexism
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012Significant pruning of my blog subscriptions tonight. Some I don't read, some I follow on Twitter or with alternate news tools like Paper.li
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012RSS isn't dead. It's just been pushed further down in the stack.
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012So were my old Avalon Hill gaming days preparing me for life as an analyst? sourcesandmethods.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/spot-r…
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012Bit of info on Imuler.C (OSX trojan): storify.com/kylemaxwell/ma…
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012The words "beautiful" and "rich" in web design and social media have started to lose their meaning.
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012My #storify of today's "Big Data and Security Intelligence debate": sfy.co/iC7 #bigdata #siem cc @beaker @raffaelmarty
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 20, 2012Interesting malware, though inappropriate use of the word "unique": theregister.co.uk/2012/03/18/fil…
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 19, 2012Very nuanced view of whistleblowing in contexts of Bradley Manning & Daniel Davis: emptywheel.net/2012/02/12/hon… via @vs_
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 19, 2012"We need a new pie chart." weforum.org/content/gainin… #datavisualization
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 19, 2012It's amazing what you can do with a search engine and the phrase "learn $topic".
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 18, 2012Checked smoke alarms and reviewed fire emergency plan with kids today. Also started disaster planning. #wearenotprepared
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Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) March 18, 2012Next time, I’m doing that in Storify.
