Twitter Visualized
My Twitter network as a visual graph. I’ve linked this site up before, but still find it pretty amazing to plug in some web addresses of real internet rock stars - give it a try.
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January 28th, 2009 at 21:59
Ironically, it looks like fireworks.
Isn’t that what we are experiencing now with all of the technology & sharing of great minds? Fireworks.
Thanks!
-jen
April 10th, 2009 at 04:24
Hi Scott, it’s interesting to run this applet on a twitter profile page, but I’m afraid to say that this doesn’t say anything at all about one’s social network, since what’s visualized is merely the structure of the HTML of this page.
And because of this there’s absolutely NO visual difference between anyone who has more than 36 followers, since the twitter sidebar only shows that many followers… So for example twitter.com/stephenfry (395415 followers) and e.g. my own twitter.com/toxi (817 followers) are structurally the same, even if different layouts. The visual cluster actually referring to your network is the small one with the grey blue and purple nodes in the image above. Compare this with a few other users and you’ll see the futility of this approach. Big Sorry!