Nine Cool Twitter Visualizations
In case you haven’t heard, the hot new thing on the Internet is all about Twitter. When I first discovered Twitter, I thought it was pretty stupid. Why would I want to “chat” with all these people when I already have to check my email, voicemail, facebook, etc.?
Well, Twitter has its good side: it’s a great place to find like-minded people and it’s a fantastic place to ask questions and get immediate feedback.
But some people still don’t understand what it does or how it works—they need to see it. So I decided to put together some sketches that helped me kind of understand how Twitter works. And since I suck at drawing, I’ve also added nine other visualizations that other people have done.
Hopefully one of these will get the message across and you’ll “get” Twitter by the end of the post.
My Drawings
Fist thing you need to know is that a Tweet is a short, 140 character message that you send off into the ether. Your followers all see it on their feed.
Retweeting is when one of your followers takes what you said and they “pass it on” to their own followers, spreading your message.
Which can often lead to new people discovering you and deciding to follow you.
Still haven’t had enough? Here are nine other Twitter visualizations that will hopefully get the message across:
1. Twitter Explained Video:
2. A Basic Twitter Network:
3. A Twitter StreamGraph:
4. Exploding Stars Twitter:
5. Twitter Outer Space:
6. German Twitter
Don’t forget to add thewriterscoin to your Twitter feed!
May 21st, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Who cares?
May 21st, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I repeat, who cares? This is like the discovery of hot water.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I like the retweet visualization. good stuff!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Imani: Have you ever asked a question you don’t know the answer to on Twitter? Try it some time and you’ll see why it matters. I also used to think of Twitter as a waste of time. But I eventually came around to see how it can be very useful.
Now, if you’re referring to my post…I can’t answer that question for you.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Nice explanation. Thanks.
October 26th, 2011 at 8:40 am
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