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When Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges began sharing 140 characters of inspiration every morning, she probably didn't realize how much she was revealing.

The mayor starts each day by tweeting a brief quotation from the likes of Carl Sagan, Colin Powell and Nora Ephron to her 8,462 followers on Twitter.

Local statistician Tom Q. Johnson saw the quotes as a data set. He used the timestamp on Hodges' tweets to determine approximately when she got out of bed each day. The average? 6:31 a.m.

https://twitter.com/Tomqj/status/468713537351995392

Hodges apparently found the chart flattering.

"*Now* I am The Mayor," she quipped on Facebook. "I don't experience it as creepy - I think it's pretty hilariously awesome."

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When Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges began sharing 140 characters of inspiration every morning, she probably didn’t realize how much she was revealing. The mayor starts each day by tweeting a brief quotation from the likes of Carl Sagan, Colin Powell and Nora Ephron to her 8,462 followers on Twitter. Local statistician Tom Q. Johnson saw…

Chart uses mayor’s tweets to track her awakenings

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