Friday, May 15, 2009

Fun on Friday #29: Visible Tweets

I seem to be hooked on Twitter at the moment (although I'm not posting as much as I'd like). One of the people I follow shared a link to Visible Tweets:
Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!
It's an interesting concept. Very pretty and strangely hypnotic. Try it with a current search term. For example, as I write this, there's a fair amount of traffic about TeachMeet Midlands, so try a Visible Tweets search on #tmm09.

What do you think about Visible Tweets?
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5 comments:

  1. Christine McIntoshMay 16, 2009 9:32 am

    Now this is addictive! Get thee behind me ...

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  2. Iain HallahanMay 16, 2009 12:17 pm

    Yup, I think this is brilliant. Added a visual tweets link into the TMSLF09 page the other night. Ollie was saying they are thinking og using it to display tweets on big screens at the Festival itself.

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  3. DavidMay 16, 2009 2:37 pm

    Hello Chris

    Glad you liked it.

    Hello Iain

    I think it was the conversation about using it at SLF that first drew it to my attention. I think it will work well at a conference like SLF.

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  4. Tom BarrettMay 16, 2009 2:51 pm

    Strangely enough we had a screen at TeachMeet Midlands projecting Visible Tweets! As soon as I saw it a few weeks ago I thought it would work at a conference.

    It has a clear and interesting display to read in a big room, only downside is that it seems fairly random and so tweets appear without any sort of chronology.

    Worked well for us last night though.

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  5. DavidMay 18, 2009 8:12 pm

    Hello Tom

    I think Visible Tweets would be great for an exhibition where the random nature would attract attention. However, for a backchannel I think I'd still go for TwitterCamp.

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