17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData

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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 ...

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