Twitterverse

Thanks to MashupAwards.com for awarding Twitterverse the mashup of the day!  MashupAwards is a hand-picked showcase of the best web mashups with awards served on a daily and monthly basis. Judging is based on uniqueness, creativity, utility, content and user experience.

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It’s a lovely Saturday. See what people thought was awesome today!

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People are buzzing about Apple’s new iPod and relatively split on the iPhone after the big announcement.

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See what people are saying about the Twitter Blocks today.

This is the first of a regular series of posts that will feature a snapshot in time of a hot topic from Twitterverse.

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From Idea To Execution: The Team Behind Twitterverse by Adario Strange at Wired’s Epicenter blog:

Snooping around the web I found this interesting early idea sketch from the creators of Twitterverse. Over the weekend I got in touch with web designer and Twitterverse co-creator Emily Chang of Ideacodes for an explanation…

“I did the sketch in March as my partner, Max Kiesler, and I were debating a Twitter mashup called Twitterverse.com. It’s an experiment we’re doing in our free time to mine and archive the public timeline show popular words and phrases from Twitter.”

Read the full post: Idea To Execution: The Team Behind Twitterverse

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We’ve been busy over here adjusting algorithms and switching our database over.  As a result, the search is now back (going back to April 24 at the moment) and we’ve added user photos to the search results.

UPDATE: The search now also covers username, @username, location, user description fields. Try it out! As we archive more data, you’ll be able to find better results.

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Today, we added five new color themes to Twitterverse for your viewing pleasure. 

In addition to pink, you can now browse the site in peppy green, sunkist orange, mellow blue, or choose to go minimal with light or dark gray.  Clicking the color chips in the right navigation will switch the site between themes at any time.  Have fun… and let us know which color you like the most!

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Twitterverse is mentioned in The Times UK’s article, ”Microtrends: Twitter.com” which summarizes general points about Twitter.

From the article:

“Who’s on it? At the moment, the 100 most popular Twitter users are techies twittering about Twitter, bandwagon-jumping politicians (US presidential hopeful John Edwards is “Enjoying the weekend with family”), and fictional characters… What are they talking about? A site called Twitterverse ranks the keywords people use in messages: 1: “Twitter”; 2: “Going”; 3: “Lunch”.

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Hello Twitterers. You may have noticed some funky stuff in the last few days with our hour views (sorry about that) but no worries, they’re better now!  We’ve switched over to the Twitter XML feed so we can import more comprehensive data.  Thanks to uber-coding over the last few days by Max and Andrew Weaver, tweets having been pouring into the new database as of earlier tonight.

You’ll also notice that on the individual word pages for each time view (eg. 5 hour view of “coffee”), we’re now displaying user photos and location. Yay!  The time views are also filtering @username and display names so the word cloud is much more accurate in terms of content.  This makes Twitterverse a great way to discover new people based on the content of their tweets.  Hope you enjoy.

PS - Yesterday’s view won’t be updated until tomorrow when there’s enough data and we can timeshift.  We’ll be updating the search feature as well.  That’s next up.

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Over at Marketing Roadmaps, Susan Getgood writes a post about the marketing aspects of tracking conversations on Twitterverse.

“Twitterverse hints that perhaps we can extract business utility from Twitter. The ability to filter conversations and organize into groups (which I am sure people are working on as I type) could actually make Twitter a useful business tool...”

Indeed, we’re adding more features to filter and organize words and conversations.  In terms of extracting marketing value from following conversations on Twitter, it’s probably too early as Susan speculates. On the other hand, businesses can already benefit from Twitter by using it as a broadcast system - one that reaches your audience directly and in their self-selected method of communication: IM, web, mobile phone.  Companies that want to see what people are saying about their products can already do so by following and searching Twitter as well.  While the search only cover Twitter data for the past week at this point, try a searching “macbook” and you’ll see what we mean.

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His title was so good, we had to steal it.  Thanks to Biz Stone for posting about Twitterverse at the Twitter blog in Holy Pink Mashups Batman! We heart Twitter.

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Senior marketing strategist Steve Rubel twittered about Twitterverse and covers it in his post, Two New Ways to Mine for Twitter Gold.

“Two new tools have launched that make it easy to search and mine Twitter for conversation data.

The first, called Twitterment, pulls geo-tagged data and charts from the last few days. You can also compare terms. Here’s a chart I pulled using Twitterment for the search phrase lunch. Clearly a lot of us like to eat around noon. So Twitter may be bigger on the East Coast than it is on the West.

The second comes via Download Squad from Emily Chang and friends. Twitterverse identifies the biggest memes and organizes them by tags. It too has a search tool.”

Read the full post here.

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What bloggers have said in the last two days since we’ve been live:

Twitterverse by Pete Cashmore at Mashable:
“Twitter’s API is spawning new tools faster than we can keep up. The latest is Twitterverse, from design company Ideacodes, which provides a “visualization layer” for Twitter messages. Through the tagcloud interface, you can see which words are being used most on Twitter now, 5 hours ago, 10 hours ago or yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the one thing that everyone on Twitter talks about is Twitter itself, but “taxes” also seem to be turning up frequently.”

Welcome to the Twitterverse by Chris Gilmer at Download Squad:
“Ideacodes has just released a new Twitter fan tool, thet Twitterverse. It allows people to check out what words are commonly used through Twitter. They take data that is available from Twitter’s public timeline and mash it up to create a clean Web 2.0 visual display—much like a tag cloud—of the words by adjusting the type size depending on the usage amount.”

Twitterverse Helps Track Twitter Conversations by Bloggers Blog:
“Twitterverse is an interesting tool that displays keywords that people have been discussing recently on Twitter in an easy-to-read tag cloud layout...It will be interesting to see what happens on Twitterverse when there is a big breaking news event...The search tool will be useful for finding conversations about a particular subject and for ego searches.”

Tweets, Ideas, Codes, and Verses by Andrew Mager:
“The always impressive tag team from Ideacodes, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, just released their new mashup called Twitterverse...This is the first Twitter mashup that really collects a lot of important data, and makes it relevant to the user. Unlike Twittervision which shows one random tweet as it comes in, Twitterverse aggregates data over time. When you click on a popular word, it brings you to a page showing all of the tweeters who have used the word. Today, the word “Easter” is bigger than most words in the cloud.”

The Twitterverse at Mintyfunk:
“Twitterverse plays off of the Twitter tag line ‘What are you doing?’ and asks the question, ‘What is Twitter doing?’ and it shows you based on the last hour, 5 hours, 10 hours or yesterday. It also can key in on key words in a conversation or a name. Be careful what you tweet, big brother may not be watching you, but twitterverse is.”

New Twitter Tools at Hard Drive Life:
“From the minds of Ideacodes comes this “tag cloud” maker from Twitter’s public feed, giving you a glance of what topics/keywords are being discussed over your designated time frame (anywhere from 1 hour to several days).

Twitterverse.com - What is Twitter Doing Today? at KillerStartups:
“The site just launched, so there’s a lot of development to come, such as a bigger filter on the kinds of words being displayed, but it’s fun to look through. You would never think that some of the most typed words are people’s names. The biggest words are generally verbs like watching, listening, and going. I clicked on “pizza”, a relatively small word in the list (meaning it’s been typed less than others on the list) and was surprised to see a long list already accumulated of people talking about how they wanted pizza or were waiting for it to be delivered. Check it out if you want to see some of the most common words used daily on Twitter.”

What are the most popular keywords on Twitter? at Twitterforum:
“Now you can find out with Twitterverse. Ideacodes Labs has come out with their first project which is a “visualization layer” (think tag / key word cloud for Twitter).

We had a look at the page and the keywords are larger for more popular and smaller for less popular, as in a normal tag cloud. Also the keywords are separated alphabetically by paragraph for your viewing convenience.

This is the first version and the developers have a list of new features that they are looking to implement.

This is going to be a good one to watch. Good luck guys!”

Twitter Twaddle by Paul Kedrosky:
“My biggest takeaway from this funky new data-driven exploration of the Twitter universe is that the biggest topic of conversation on Twitter is ... well, Twitter.”

Twitterverse - Most used words on Twitter on Digg

Twitter Talks About Itself by frivolous motion:
“Twitterverse, a site that makes a fancy little tag cloud of the most-used words on Twitter.”

Twitterverse by Dino Demopoulos

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We’ve been watching our stats and are excited to see visitors from literally every corner of the world at this point. Here are some of the blog posts by international bloggers so far.

Twitterverse on Engadget Spain (in Spanish)

Twitterverse by Fabrizio Pivari (in Italian)

Twitter Mashup by Showeb2.0 (in Chinese)

Emily Chang and Twitterverse by nakano (in Japanese)

Was ist das? Twitterverse by Markus Tressl (in German)

Twitterverse at ogeeBloggin’ (in German)

Twitterverse - Twitters Zeitgeist by Volkmar Breindi (in German)

Twitterverse - vos discussions visible sous forme de Tag at fuzz.fr (in French)

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"It was just the other day when I mentioned that we need a visual way to see what topics people Twitter about, something like tracking popular keywords, the word burst type of thing.

Well this has been answered by delving into the Twitterverse, see the word bursts for the day or yesterday in the cloud. Track the Twitterverse throughout the day to see how topics change over the day, or how their impact lessen or grow.”

Read the rest of the post at Library Clips

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