[Update: I was having issues with this app due to corporate proxy rules – it’s all good from home.]
Jeff Clark over at Neoformix has come up with a really simple but compelling application/visualization. For 2 or 3 keywords, it displays the venn diagram of search results over Twitter for the sets and their intersections. Of course, there is no reason why it needs to be pointing at Twitter – the data could come from anywhere.
Unfortunately the app is down right now (not sure if it is the client or Twitter search that is broken), but you can get a good idea of what it does from Jeff’s blog posts here and here.
It's curious to use this tool for breaking news.
In the moments of 1st Tweets, the intersection Cloud of "Plane,Crash" would have shown "737 Plane crash retweet @BreakingOnNews" which completely buried primary convo now, the 1st person tweets of @2drinksbehind.
Plane Crash ~ 1st Tweet Timeline.. http://tweetip.us/lkdvu
Posted by: tweetip | December 21, 2008 at 03:51 PM