This is a pretty fantastic visualization connecting your conversations on Twitter. From Google's recently launched Chrome Experiments, which showcases JavaScript intensive games, apps, and visualizations. I did some runs on some keywords and its pretty amazing. Here's a screenshot of visualizations of the connections and cross-connections between tweeters I (@dina) have had conversations with in the last month - on the Social Collider site, you can mouse-over or click the dots to actually view the conversations:
Search: username: 'dina' [click images for full impact]
And another one with search keyword: 'social media' for a week:
From their About Page:
The Social Collider reveals cross-connections between conversations on Twitter.
With the Internet's promise of instant and absolute connectedness, two things appear to be curiously underrepresented: both temporal and lateral perspective of our data-trails. Yet, the amount of data we are constantly producing provides a whole world of contexts, many of which can reveal astonishing relationships if only looked at through time.
This experiment explores these possibilities by starting with messages on the microblogging-platform Twitter. One can search for usernames or topics, which are tracked through time and visualized much like the way a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter. Posts that didn't resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did, however, spin off and horizontally link to users or topics who relate to them, either directly or in terms of their content.
The Social Collider acts as a metaphorical instrument which can be used to make visible how memes get created and how they propagate. Ideally, it might catch the Zeitgeist at work.
Get project status updates on Twitter: @socialcollider. Credits: Karsten Schmidt - concept, design & programming (@toxi). Sascha Pohflepp - concept, design (@plugimi)
Bonus Link: Here's a great description by Kevin Makice of how it works and what all the coloured lines and dots denote.
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