#vss365 Wrapped 2017
Note: "Media Prompts" are defined as having an image or video attached to the tweet. Embedded media, such as YouTube embeds, are not considered media prompts.
- 366 prompts were given out
- 24 image prompts were given out on September 05, 2017, in celebration of one year of #vss365
- 12 prompts reigned as the shortest prompt, with 3 letters
- 1 prompt reigned as the longest prompt, with 17 letters
- The most common length of a prompt was 6 letters, with 71 prompts
- The average length of a prompt was 6.6393 letters
- All 26 letters of the English alphabet were used at least once
- The most common letter was "e", with 296 uses
- The least common letter was "z", with 4 uses
- The most common starting letter was "s", with 44 uses
- The least common starting letter was "q", with 2 uses
- The most common ending letter was "e", with 89 uses
- The least common ending letter was "c", with 3 uses
- 1 prompt was repeated
- There were 9 (2.4590%) media prompts
- 9 (100%) media prompts did not have alt text to help visually impaired
writers know what content or information the media portrayed
- To be fair, Twitter had little support for alt text until 2022
- 1 host was a veteran host
- 3 hosts were first time hosts
Shortest prompts
| Prompt |
Host |
Date |
| tea |
FlashDogs |
January 04, 2017 |
| jet |
FlashDogs |
February 22, 2017 |
| map |
FlashDogs |
March 14, 2017 |
| age |
FlashDogs |
April 09, 2017 |
| pot |
FlashDogs |
April 30, 2017 |
| cry |
FlashDogs |
May 23, 2017 |
| job |
FlashDogs |
July 07, 2017 |
| rig |
FlashDogs |
July 15, 2017 |
| hum |
FlashDogs |
July 20, 2017 |
| bow |
voimaoy |
October 03, 2017 |
| row |
CalebEchterling |
October 25, 2017 |
| old |
voimaoy |
December 31, 2017 |
Repeated prompts
| Prompt |
Occurrences |
| orient |
2 |
Prompt lengths and occurrences
Ordered by most common occurrence first
| Number of letters |
Prompts |
| 6 |
71 |
| 5 |
70 |
| 7 |
49 |
| 8 |
48 |
| 4 |
47 |
| 9 |
33 |
| 10 |
19 |
| 3 |
12 |
| 11 |
7 |
| 12 |
4 |
| 14 |
3 |
| 16 |
2 |
| 17 |
1 |
Average number of letters in each prompt for each host
Ordered by largest average length first
| Host |
Average letters in prompts |
| FlashDogs |
7.1767 |
| voimaoy |
5.6825 |
| CalebEchterling |
5.6129 |
| sian_ink |
4.8261 |
Veteran hosts
| Host |
Hosting period start date |
| FlashDogs |
January 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
February 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
March 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
April 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
May 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
June 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
July 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
August 01, 2017 |
| FlashDogs |
September 01, 2017 |
First time hosts
| Host |
Hosting period start date |
| voimaoy |
September 06, 2017 |
| voimaoy |
October 01, 2017 |
| CalebEchterling |
October 08, 2022 |
| sian_ink |
November 01, 2022 |
| CalebEchterling |
November 08, 2022 |
| voimaoy |
December 01, 2022 |