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Jun 04 2009

Visualizing Twitter Part Deux: I Tweet Therefore I Am, Or Must've Been Awake!

Category: executive learnings,lifestreaming,tech opinion,tech reviews,tools — jmacofearth @ 6:44 am

The API-sucking apps for Twitter are seriously where the fun begins and ends with Twitter. The network is cool, the followers (though I hate that name) also cool. But the apps working the network is where the real innovation is happening. What has Twitter proper done lately in the way of innovation? Fail? And did I read recently that 90% of Twitter's server load is due to API calls and not people on Twitter.com. So where will Twitter.com, or Biz and Co. at Twitter the company, add value? Cause if Twitter is just a network (and I'd argue that it is), it can/will be replicated and sucked down by Google or Microsoft or Oracle in a wingbeat. Pay attention.

xefer.com (charting the time of day and day of the week when you tweet)

tweetbeep (it's like google alerts but for twitter)

tweetreach (how far do your tweets go?)

twist (see trends in Twitter)

backtweets (search links on twitter)

twittervenn (venn diagrams using twitter data)

I did some fun experiments with Twitter Venn when I discovered it in March, around the time of SXSW. I still think for trending, it may be my favorite tool to show brand reach and currency. So, do you suppose it's just mac fanboys who are creating such a roar about Apple? Even with WIN7 the new iMac/Mac OS killer, Vista-redeemer, Apple is 5 times more likely to be discussed than HP or Dell. And more than twice as frequently as HP or Dell combined. That's Reach and Power combined.

Go poke your head into the Apple Store and tell me what the heck are all those people doing in there? Seriously, the stores are packed!

I know I'm waiting to see what the next iPhone will be. [Hey isn't Father's day coming right up? Nice timing Apple!]

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/visualizations-twitter

Did I miss one of your favorite visualization tools for Twitter? Drop me a line or a comment and I'll add it to my list. THX

A few related visualization-rich posts:

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Feb 09 2009

Love Twitter, Hate Twitter, Poke Fun Where It Belongs @Twitter

Category: social media — jmacofearth @ 2:03 pm

Forgive me for my self indulgence here… but when you crack yourself up, sometimes you have to go with it. So yesterday on my way home from Houston [doesn't driving always conjure up the coolest ideas] I had this funny thought about all the Twitter-ific and Tweet-oriented sites popping up and this came to my mind.

And that started my mind running amok. [Not such an unusual occurence for me.]

By the end of an hour, I had registered about 10 twitter joke domains, including the hub:

What possessed me? What giggle bone in my brain got triggered and cost me $100+ and an hour or so of my time? Well, I was tickled.

And the final kicker was the twitter account itself. Did you know you cannot register a twitter user name with the word "twitter" in it? I did not. So I settled on @hottwiitertips [less than 24 hours to shut my tweet account down. Hmmm. I guess they are paying attention to jokers.] to bridge the concept of humor, porn, spam and smacktalk on twitter. If the page is gone, then they have thought my jokes were not funny. But I think it's too small a world for the Twitter 5 to worry about me. They've got lots bigger things to worry about. And since according to WOMMA they've got Google running scared [WTF] I am certain the joke is on me somehow.

So that's it. A fun post. No content just filler.

It's just where I am on De-Dell week #2! Happy and free as a bird on twitter.

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitterjoker

WOMMA Article Excerpt: Does Twitter Threaten Google?

Google's ubiquitous presence in popular culture is undeniable; it's even an accepted dictionary verb now. More to the point, Google's search share is now approaching 85 percent, an unbelievably high percentage of internet search traffic.

So what might cause Google's fall from grace? Lew Moorman thinks Twitter is a legitimate threat. His reason:
Twitter has value as a niche search engine today. Who cares? No one really. But, there is more. Twitter is building a human powered search indexing engine. It is an engine that will build better results than any rules based index and has gotten millions of people super motivated to contribute for free every day (even though they don't know it).

Link to full post: http://bit.ly/twitter-vs-google

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