Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation yet?(visibletweets.com)

29 pointsby swombatvor 17 Jahren19 comments

Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation yet?

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

19 comments

sanjvor 17 Jahren

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.

swombatvor 17 Jahren

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.

swombatvor 17 Jahren

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=...

ieatpastevor 17 Jahren

Augmented Reality Tweets

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

swombatvor 17 Jahren

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

ieatpastevor 17 Jahren

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

swombatvor 17 Jahren

Ok, my fault for not being clear then. I was referring to visualisations of tweets within the context of a conference (often, people use Twitterfall or just plain old search.twitter.com). Projecting Visible Tweets on the wall makes for a cool, dynamic feel, by comparison.

impvor 17 Jahren

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?

Angosturavor 17 Jahren

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.

diegovor 17 Jahren

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

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

lowdownvor 17 Jahren

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

bouncingsoulvor 17 Jahren

http://twistori.com/

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

teejvor 17 Jahren

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

ahoyherevor 17 Jahren

Tell me you told them we've got a Mac app now where you can make (and theme) your own custom clusters, to your heart's content? :)

http://twistoridesktop.com :D

ahoyherevor 17 Jahren

Thanks for the link, bouncingsoul :D

furyg3vor 17 Jahren

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

wallflowervor 17 Jahren

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

estvor 17 Jahren

no CJK support.

bingamanvor 17 Jahren

Ha, the first entry was this post.