Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation yet?

http://visibletweets.com/#query=ycombinator&animation=2

by swombat • 17 years ago

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swombat4• 17 years ago

We had this at Be2Camp north last week.. it felt much more dynamic and lively than any of the other twitter visualisations I've seen so far. Thought that people here might want to be aware of it, particularly if you organise events with a twitter backchannel display.

Here's a currently trending term to see what it looks like when there are a lot of tweets on a topic:

http://visibletweets.com/#query=%23Britflicks&animation=...

ieatpaste2• 17 years ago

Augmented Reality Tweets

http://www.squidder.com/2009/02/17/papertweet3d-augmented-re...

swombat4• 17 years ago

That's kind of interesting, but not quite sure what it has to do with the post.

ieatpaste2• 17 years ago

I was suggesting that augmented reality twitters may be better twitter visualizations than Visible Tweets.

lowdown• 17 years ago

This would make a great screensaver. Has that been done yet?

furyg3• 17 years ago

Reminds me of Apple's RSS screen saver. I'd love it for tweets.

wallflower• 17 years ago

Idea: Open source Cocoa project that allows you to use WebKit (Safari integration) to build web-based screensavers easily

bouncingsoul• 17 years ago

http://twistori.com/

Available as a Mac screensaver (link in the bottom left). Similar idea with a different execution.

teej• 17 years ago

I have this installed and everyone in my office has asked me about it at this point.

ahoyhere2• 17 years ago

Thanks for the link, bouncingsoul :D

est• 17 years ago

no CJK support.

bingaman• 17 years ago

Ha, the first entry was this post.

sanj• 17 years ago

I feel like a curmudgeon saying this, but this doesn't strike me as adding any value beyond eye candy.

At least most infoporn (eg, http://beta.twittervision.com/) has some redeeming qualities of presenting the information in a way that provides some insight.

I don't see any here.

swombat4• 17 years ago

I think it has value within the context of a conference. As I mention on another comment, we used it at Be2camp north and it gave a dynamic, bigger feel to the conference. Basically, if you're going to have a twitter-fall type of display in your event, use this instead. Yes, it's eye-candy, but in the context of an event that you want to animate, eye-candy is very useful.

imp• 17 years ago

Cool, but should be twice as fast. How long does it take a person to read 140 characters? Is it limited more by API restrictions?

diego• 17 years ago

It is pretty, although I think our chart is more useful:

http://twist.flaptor.com/?gram=ycombinator&span=168

Angostura• 17 years ago

I know Twitter is desparately cool and widely used. But It seems fairly rubbish as a primary back-channel.

It's nice to be able to vaccum up tweets going out of the conference and not directly meant for people in the session/conference. But for direct feedback there are several chat alternatives which would be better, including IRC.

Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation yet?

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