Waste more time on Twitter with Twitscoop

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Waste more time on Twitter with Twitscoop

by Joey Celis Jul 9th 2008

Twitter is a vast network of individuals posting about all sorts of different things. Take for instance this very second, members are posting about cupcakes, the military, Ferrari, mobileme, the Olympics and much more. But these topics change so quickly you would be mad if you tried to keep up with them yourself. Thankfully, Twitscoop has automated this process so that you can continue to sit in front of your computer staring endlessly at other people conversation.

Twitscoop works by monitoring all the publicly available tweets out there and measures the frequency of the words used. The more mentions of a subject the more popular it must be.

Twitscoop then places them in alphabetical order in a Tag Cloud, the more popular the word the larger it is compared to the rest in the cloud. Mouse over the tag to find out who is talking about what, click on the tag and it will take you to a graph that will display the frequency of the topic along with the users. With all of this information available, you'll be one well informed Twitter!

In our time with using the site we only had one gripe with it, the lack to sort the cloud via the size of the tag. This is only a minor complaint really but something that should be added for those of us out there that like a little order in our lives.

Tags: microblogging, socialnetworking, twitter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Todd said 5:27PM on 7-09-2008

I was checking Twitscoop out earlier in the week. Contrary to the snooty, flippant tone of Mr. Celis' above post, its actually a pretty powerful tool, on the order of Twitter Vision. Yes I am a total tag cloud nerd, but anyone with an interest in sociology, already using Twitter Vision, will really like Twitscoop.

See also Favrd and hashtags.org

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