After you enter your Twitter username and password (No OAuth Support!), it shows you a grid in which you can use your arrow keys to navigate through your friends tweets in 3D.

Is there a practical purpose that this tool solves? I don’t think so! Its just a great visualization attempt.

Post from Twitdom - Twitt3D

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Post from Twitdom - FlockChart

As described on their website,

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 website is extremely slow for regular usage though.

(Via Mashable)

Post from Twitdom - Social Collider

There is a screensaver version of TwittEarth available for Windows XP.

Post from Twitdom - TwittEarth

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Post from Twitdom - Tweet Exposure

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Post from Twitdom - MTV VMA 2010 Twitter Tracker

A system that samples the shifting popularity of words could record and relay data to an app that animates these changes over time. With this approach, we could create the data-driven equivalent of a fast action replay for every game in the tournament. If we got it right, people might see the roar of the crowd passing through Twitter.

Post from Twitdom - World Cup 2010 Twitter Replay

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