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title: 'You got your Vizify in my Twitter. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify.'
date: '2012-12-11T09:16:54-08:00'
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# You got your Vizify in my Twitter. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify.

Like many startups, Portland’s [Vizify](http://vizify.com "Vizify")—an alum of [TechStars](http://techstars.com "TechStars") Seattle and the [Portland Seed Fund](http://portlandseedfund.com "Portland Seed Fund")—has this tendency of launching something awesome, going dark, and then launching something even more awesome. And given that they’ve been quiet for a while, I’ve been expecting something.

Today they delivered: [Your Year on Twitter](https://2012.twitter.com/ "Your Year on Twitter"), a [Twitter](http://twitter.com "Twitter") retrospective powered by Vizify. Think of it as your own personal [Google Zeitgeist](http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/ "Google Zeitgeist") for your Twitter behavior.

The service combs through up to 3200 tweets from 2012, highlighting your most often used words (In a shocking revelation. [my most used word was “Portland”](https://www.vizify.com/turoczy/year-on-twitter "Turoczy's Year on Twitter")), your Golden Tweet, and your Golden Follower for the year.

[![](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turoczy-year-twitter2.jpg?resize=600%2C314 "Turoczy's year on Twitter")](https://www.vizify.com/turoczy/year-on-twitter)

This isn’t Portland’s first connection with the juggernaut that is Twitter. The town has a rather interesting series of connections with the service, from its concept days to this latest effort.

Evan “@rabble” Henshaw-Plath who was working at Odeo when Twitter was conceived as Twittr, calls Portland home for a good chunk of the year. Rael “@rael” Dornfest’s Twitter project [Sandy was acquired by Twitter](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/11/25/another-portland-startup-closes-down/ "Another Portland startup closes down"). And Alex “@al3x” Payne, who served as Platform Lead at Twitter and worked on the API infrastructure that is credited with Twitter’s explosive growth, called Portland home for a few years.

It’s nice to see Vizify keeping the Portland-Twitter relationship alive. Having [Jack Dorsey tweet about it](https://twitter.com/jack/status/278568421346648066 "@jack on Vizify's Your Year on Twitter") ain’t half bad either.

For more information or to build your own Vizify powered Twitter yearbook, visit [Your Year on Twitter](https://2012.twitter.com/ "Your Year on Twitter").