tweets

mentionmap is a notable tool that attempts to organize the endless seeming string of twitter micro-messages. read the full post here.

“the tool allows you to visualize your twitter network in real-time, showing which people are interacting the most, and thus alerting you to topics and conversations generating heat among the people you’re interested in hearing from. the tool crunches all the people and hashtags being mentioned the most in your network. when one person mentions another, a line connects them; when multiple users are engaging in a cross-conversation, the results appear as a cluster. hovering over the lines brings up detailed information about the subject. the thicker the line, the more frequent the number of cross mentions.”

link: mentionmap

• as an example check out projektwerk_int visualized twitter network on mentionmap

“twitter lists” is a new twitter feature that allows you to group the tweets of certain users into categories. there is also an option to view and subscribe to the twitter lists of other users… check out: 10 ways you can use twitter lists on mashable.

data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data – in this fascinating example twitter is being used to visualize social movements. it shows 24 hours of “good morning” tweets, from around the world. green tweets are early morning, local time; orange occurs somewhere around 9am; red tweets are late morning; and black represents tweets that are “out of time,” meaning that they don’t correspond with actual morning hours…

watch the world wake up, on twitter

hi,

as you probably know, twitters mircro-blogging service enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as “tweets”. tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to other users, known as “followers”, who have subscribed to them…

“are you on twitter? thirty-two million other folks are, but most of them aren’t using it to search for work. a recent yahoo! hotjobs poll revealed that only 8 percent of respondents have used twitter to help with a job search. don’t let this valuable medium go unmined as you look for your next opportunity…”