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Twitscoop: Real-time tag cloud, search engine for Twitter
The video above should give you an idea of what the tag cloud looks like, but the video capture software slowed our computer down a bit, so imagine the whole thing sped up a bit. As more and more Twitter users enter keywords in their messages, the tag cloud is updated.
Twitscoop's tag cloud should make for interesting reading during a major news event like a presidential debate. But even on slower news days, Twitscoop provides an overview of the conversations taking place among Twitter users. Sure, they're probably not representative of the public at large, but they're certainly representative of something... early adopters maybe?
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Todd said 10:19PM on 7-10-2008
Love, love, LOVE all tag clouds, especially dynamic ones with real time updating. I also really like the way Twitscoop shows the keyword search results with the sliding scale for time/date word appeared by instance. Yes this is a "thumbs up" from me, Todd, the world's most cynical person!
I wonder if any the third parties dependent on Twitter's API will fall over tomorrow as all the 3G iPhones come on line and immediately start using Twitter. Fail Whale on the new iPhone in 3...2...1...
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