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Top 100 Things Twitterers Are Giving Up for Lent

A Wordle of the below words shows the relative frequency of each one.

Some you’d expect (alcohol, chocolate), some are ironic (giving up Lent for Lent, giving up giving up things), some are odd (pants, lint), some are anti-religious (religion, Catholicism), and some are tech-related (Facebook, Twitter—even “Facebook and Twitter” makes the list).

Complete List

  1. Facebook (654)
  2. Twitter (317)
  3. Chocolate (272)
  4. Lent (216)
  5. Alcohol (187)
  6. Soda (139)
  7. Coffee (129)
  8. Meat (126)
  9. Religion (102)
  10. Swearing (94)
  11. Sweets (92)
  12. Catholicism (90)
  13. Giving up things (80)
  14. Work (70)
  15. Beer (60)
  16. Sex (59)
  17. Fast food (57)
  18. Facebook and twitter (57)
  19. Sugar (45)
  20. Stuff (43)
  21. Booze (41)
  22. Smoking (39)
  23. Food (39)
  24. Procrastination (38)
  25. Internet (37)
  26. Cursing (36)
  27. Caffeine (35)
  28. TV (33)
  29. Pancakes (33)
  30. Social networking (33)
  31. Sleep (32)
  32. Candy (32)
  33. Diet Coke (29)
  34. Giving up (29)
  35. You (28)
  36. Wine (28)
  37. Lint (28)
  38. Cheese (28)
  39. Bread (26)
  40. Shopping (26)
  41. Sobriety (26)
  42. Abstinence (24)
  43. Cussing (24)
  44. Red meat (24)
  45. Chips (23)
  46. Internet porn (22)
  47. Christianity (22)
  48. Nothing (21)
  49. French fries (21)
  50. Jesus (21)
  51. Sarcasm (19)
  52. Junk food (19)
  53. Starbucks (18)
  54. Ice cream (18)
  55. MySpace (18)
  56. Cookies (18)
  57. Fried food (17)
  58. Complaining (17)
  59. God (16)
  60. New years resolutions (15)
  61. Social media (15)
  62. Pizza (14)
  63. Tweeting (14)
  64. Carbs (13)
  65. MySpace and Facebook (13)
  66. Carbon (13)
  67. Eating out (13)
  68. Stress (13)
  69. Flaky guys (12)
  70. Laziness (12)
  71. Texting (12)
  72. Me (11)
  73. Some of your money (11)
  74. Annoying me (11)
  75. Sacrifice (11)
  76. School (11)
  77. Hope (10)
  78. Rice (10)
  79. Coke (10)
  80. Porn (10)
  81. The snooze button (10)
  82. Guilt (10)
  83. Men (9)
  84. Obama (9)
  85. Church (9)
  86. My job (9)
  87. Homework (9)
  88. Self denial (9)
  89. Moderation (9)
  90. Exercise (8)
  91. Bacon (8)
  92. Dieting (8)
  93. Paying taxes (8)
  94. Dr Pepper (8)
  95. Gossip (8)
  96. Beef (8)
  97. Pants (7)
  98. My sanity (7)
  99. Celibacy (7)
  100. Shaving (7)

About

Created using the Twitter Search API and Wordle. Data based on analysis of 15,000 tweets from February 22-26, 2009.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 8:50 am and is filed under Lent, Twitter, Visualizations. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Responses to “Top 100 Things Twitterers Are Giving Up for Lent”

  1. Twitter-Theology of Lent | Christ and Pop Culture says:
    February 27, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    […] analyzed 15,000 tweets this week and made a Wordle of the top 100 things Twitterers claim to be giving up for Lent. […]

  2. What Twitterers Are Giving up for Lent (2010 Edition) « OpenBible.info Blog says:
    February 23, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    […] list largely tracks last year’s list. It draws from 40,000 tweets retrieved February 14-20, […]

  3. Amy says:
    March 3, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    I did this for the past two years, last year I wrote a book about it. I plan to blog about it again this year. 🙂 Feel free to check out last year’s journey! http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Facebook-Lenten-Journey/dp/1451580681

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    March 8, 2011 at 2:53 pm

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    March 10, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    […] think this Wordle of the most common things being given up for Lent (thanks to these guys’ research) is pretty accurate, wouldn’t you […]