I just discovered Adaptive Path’s blog, which has some really good stuff. Chiara Fox wrote a post on The 5 Senses on Twitter, and discovered (through Twist) that it’s sight that is reported more often than the other human senses on Twitter.

That’s so strange to me. It’s understandable not everyone wants to report the texture of their sandwich, or the smell in their office. Hearing and seeing, if not smelling and touching, are quite central to interesting human experiences that other people can relate to, so I would’ve expected they’d be closely correlated on a graph.

Perhaps it’s a translation problem: Twitter slang includes “OH” which stands for “overheard”. So the word “OH” would be more common than “hear”.

So here’s the original graph showing a comparison of “smell, taste, see, hear, touch”, and here’s a graph showing “hear” replaced with “OH”. Considerably closer. I wonder if there’s slang for the other senses reported on Twitter? Here’s taste replaced with lunch.