Twitter StreamGraphs

A quick post today due to a heavy workload, but I had to mention one of the most interesting visualisations of Twitter I’ve seen in a while at Twitter StreamGraphs.

It’s a third party creation which either lets you see the last 200 tweets containing a search term, or the last 200 tweets by a username.

It’s useful, and it looks great….it’s been created by Jeff Clark, who also created TwitterArcs and TwitterSpectrum.

TwitterStreamGraph

Tweetdeck – Twitter desktop application

Tweetdeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that brings Twitter to the desktop of Mac and PC in the most readable format yet.

Tweetdeck uses column layouts to arrange Tweets however you like. The default columns are All Tweets, Replies, Direct, but Tweetdeck’s functionality allows you to add/remove columns and custom ‘build’ your own columns – even group certain Twitter users to their own column.

It also gives you on screen notifications of new Tweets and incorporates an optional column to display a Twitscoop keyword cloud to show you what the biggest keywords are on Twitter right now.

The interface is sleek and Web 2.0 style. Columns can be resized or rearranged by dragging. You can also Tweet directly from the application of course, and it has built in shorten url functionality and Twitpic.

The only thing I would say it lacks is highlighting of new Tweets, which I greatly appreciate from Socialthing.

MCN ad mistake: When keyword advertising goes bad.

I’ve said before that I try and stay away from blogging too much about my day job, as I want my opinions to be clearly independent from Emap/MCN, and I also don’t want to post anything that seems like advertising.

But sometimes I can’t avoid it, particularly when I came in to work today to find MCN’s site on the front page of The Register.

It’s the inherent danger of serving ads via keywords, and it’s hard to avoid. All you can really do is react as soon as it happens.

MCN ad mistake: When keyword advertising goes bad.

I’ve said before that I try and stay away from blogging too much about my day job, as I want my opinions to be clearly independent from Emap/MCN, and I also don’t want to post anything that seems like advertising.

But sometimes I can’t avoid it, particularly when i came in to work today to find MCN’s site on the front page of The Register.

It’s the inherent danger of serving ads via keywords, and it’s hard to avoid. All you can really do is react as soon as it happens.