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"Ah, Twitter. It's impossible to get away from it; it seems that everyone stopped whatever they were doing B.T. (before Twitter) and switched to doing cool stuff for and around the service, and this includes data visualizations. In the past, we've profiled unique Twitter-related visualizations, but now we're after sheer beauty. And that's exactly what we've found; here are six gorgeous Twitter visualizations.\nKnow of a beautiful Twitter visualization? Let us know in the comments!\n\n1. Social Collider\n\n\n\n\nAlthough it's a bit too slow for everyday usage and functions better as pure eye candy, Social Collider is actually quite an interesting tool. It tracks conversations based on users or topics on Twitter in the following way: if a tweet didn't start a conversation, it just connects vertically to the next tweet. If it did, it connects to the next conversation horizontally. Depending on the user or topic you choose, it can be a visual treat or complete information overload (try \"Mashable\" for an example of that). \n2. Just Landed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJust Landed is a beautiful geo-visualization of tweets containing the words \"Just landed in...\". It finds the tweets containing the phrase, checks for the location they've landed in, and the location they were sent from, and shows all this on a 3D map of the world. For more information check out the author's blog, blprnt.org.\n3. Twistori\n\n\n\n\nIn its exploration of Twitter, Twistori goes back to basics: to what we love, hate, believe, think, feel and wish. It takes tweets containing those words and turns them into a beautiful stream of (mostly) positive Twitter thoughts. Feeling down or depressed? Tune into Twistori, turn on the \"I Love\" stream and you'll feel better in no time. \n4. Twitt3D\n\n\n\n\nTwitt3D would have been much better looking if it weren't for the shabby overall page design, but it's still a very interesting visual tool. It lets you follow your tweets in 3D; after entering your Twitter username and password, you can use the arrow keys to navigate and the space bar to quickly change perspectives. Twitt3D's usefulness is pretty much zero, but those still pining for the never-realized Gibsonesque 3D cyberspace will love it. \n5. Goodnight Sweet Tweets\n\n\n\n\nThis sweet and simple visualization was built with Processing. It parses Twitter for tweets containing the strings \u201Czzz\u201D or \u201Czzzz\u201D and then animates them with some vector-based graphics. It's nothing more than a visual gimmick, but it's definitely a nice addition to the already visually impressive website. \n6. Minsh\n\n\n\n\nOk, Minsh perhaps has some way to go before it gets truly beautiful, as this underwater 3D world based on Twitter could benefit from some more polished graphics, but the potential is there. Unfortunately, at this time you cannot sign up for Minsh as it's not accepting new users before the new (alpha) version is released, but you can see what it's about in the video. \nHonorable mention - TweetWheel\n\n\nUnfortunately, TweetWheel no longer exists (its domain, tweetwheel.com is now just a parked domain with a bunch of ads). However, it was one of the most beautiful Twitter visualizations out there, and Twitter app directory Twitdom still has an image of the tool in action.\nMore visualization resources from Mashable:\n\n- 6 Unique Twitter Visualizations\n- 7 Beautiful Data Visualizations (With Videos)\n- 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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