Re:Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation ...
by sanj on Thursday May 21, 2009 @11:01AM
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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.
Re:Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation ...
by swombat on Thursday May 21, 2009 @11:34AM
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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.
Re:Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation ...
by swombat on Thursday May 21, 2009 @09:12AM
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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:
Re:Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation ...
by swombat on Thursday May 21, 2009 @11:33AM
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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.
Re:Visible Tweets - best twitter back-channel visualisation ...
by Angostura on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:44PM
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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.
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.
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=...
http://www.squidder.com/2009/02/17/papertweet3d-augmented-re...
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.
http://twist.flaptor.com/?gram=ycombinator&span=168
Available as a Mac screensaver (link in the bottom left). Similar idea with a different execution.
http://twistoridesktop.com :D