Welcome to the Twitterverse

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Welcome to the Twitterverse

by Chris Gilmer Apr 9th 2007

The explosion of the Twitter applications has sure arrived. Just when you thought that there were already too many twitter mashups and applications, another one pops up.

If you aren't familiar with Twitter, it's basically a small blog tool that lets you enter small posts either from the browser window, Google Talk, or from mobile devices.

Ideacodes has just released a new Twitter fan tool, thet Twitterverse. It allows people to check out what words are commonly used through Twitter. They take data that is available from Twitter's public timeline and mash it up to create a clean Web 2.0 visual display --much like a tag cloud -- of the words by adjusting the type size depending on the usage amount.

Other Twitter tools include Triqqr, Twitterholic, TwitThis, Twittermap and Autotwit.

Tags: twitter, twitterverse

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Emily Chang said 5:41AM on 4-10-2007

Chris,
Thanks for mentioning Twitterverse! We'll be adding lots of other views to filter words as well as some user personalization and other goodies. Hope you enjoy it.

Best,
Emily

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