17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData

Description

I just created a new Twitter account [http://twitter.com/flowingdata], and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract.
Network Diagrams
Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty. These network diagrams attempt to show the relationships that exist among users.
Twitter Browser
[http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/]
Twitter Social Network Analysis
The ebiquity group did some cluster analysis and managed to group tweets by topic.
[http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/04/19/twitter-social-network-analysis/]
Twitter Vrienden

Twitter in Red
I'm not completely sure how to read this one. I looks like it starts from a single user and then shoots out into the network.

Twitter Network


Maps
When you create a Twitter account, you can enter where you are located, so in my case, I put New York. Because Tweets often have location attached to them, maps naturally lend themselves to tweet visualization.
TwiterVision
Yeah, it's a Google Maps mashup, but a bit better than what you're used to seeing.

TwitterVision3d
It's TwitterVision taken to the next dimension.

Analytics
Maybe y ...

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