It’s difficult for me to quantify the growth of coworking.

I’ve noticed, for example, that the volume of tweets on Twitter mentioning “coworking” has increased dramatically in the last few months.  Or has it?  It’s hard to tell.

While riding the subway into the city this morning, it occurred to me that the technology I’m using to recapture data I’ve set free on the Web might also be used to gather the data I’m interested in about coworking.

A few hours of hacking later, I’d extended my Twitter pwner to track and capture tweets from Twitter Search.  The result is a growing historical record of tweets that mention “coworking” stretching back a few months.

Read about it here.