Revisit: Interactive Visualization For What People are Stumbling Through Twitter

revisit is a great project that visualizes twitter messages in real-time for a specific topic. The picture below is all of the people in the twitter-sphere talking about or linking to Stumbleupon. The twitter stream tools, provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream emphasizing the conversational that’s established by retweets and @replies. .

The next image is tracking everyone that is using Su.pr or posting through the url shortener. This is a great way to track trends coming through the tool furthermore, you are able to see and engage directly with other stumblers and users of Su.pr.

Revisit aligns all twitter messages for your search terms along a timeline. Tweets that receive more attention – in form of retweets or @replies – go to the center of the stream and are displayed larger. The above image displays the visual summary.

When new tweets arrive, they are brought to the front and highlighted. Otherwise, a random tweet is picked, with a preference on newer and more “important” tweets. The tweet’s connections to others (via retweets or @replies) are indicated with colored connections. Related tweets are expanded, too, so you can read the text and follow the conversational context.This is great to engage with other stumblers and to build your social book marking network. As you can guess this tool can be used in many other topics as well.