Comments on: New Twitter Visualization Tools Coming: First Is Twitter Blocks

By: New Twitter Tools coming : Taylor Marek | Personal Finance, Business, Tech, and New Media

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:24:18 +0000

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By: Was sind Twitter-Blocks? at viralmythen

Was sind Twitter-Blocks? at viralmythen — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:12:35 +0000

[...] jenseits von just another eyecandy wird mir nicht ganz klar (aber da bin ich anscheinend nicht der einzige). Was zum Beispiel bedeutet die Höhe oder Tiefe der Blocks? Mitgründer Biz Stones [...]

By: Benedikt

Benedikt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:09:33 +0000

I find it quite fascinating that Twitter can release a new tool like Twitter Blocks without explaining anything about it. How it works, what is it for, why you should spend your time using it – all that is left to the user to figure out. I guess that’s because they don’t know it themselves.

By: Bob Warfield

Bob Warfield — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:22:03 +0000

The desireability of things like this is in the eye of the beholder. People have different Learning Styles, and these styles give different folks a marked preference for how they engage with the Web. Twitter itself is very controversial in this way: some people love it and some people hate it.

I’ve been putting together a theory of how these Personality Styles map to different Web 2.0 applications:

http://smoothsp...sonality-types/

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:02:41 +0000

If a data visualization is more useful than text, then it makes sense to do it. Otherwise, it’s just eye candy, and as such, not very filling…

By: Greg J. Smith

Greg J. Smith — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:05:12 +0000

I think these types of visualizations are useful only so far as they help you understand information better. That said, I think this is marginally interesting.. not the best visualization I’ve seen lately, but somewhat useful. As a twitter user it is helpful to lay out connections (and their connections) as a 2D grid.. I don’t think the system is that intuitive though, but it is a start.

Regarding the reference above to DiggLabs.. I actually think those are pretty useful. I wish the twitter visualization were as interesting.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:14:06 +0000

Looks kinda fun, but essentially those tools are not that interesting once their novelty factor wears off. Might be a good marketing tool for Twitter to attract new users, who doesn’t get excited when they see themselves in some fancy visualization tool. The only additional visualization I know that works well is the Digg Spy. It adds a different perspective while remaining very easy to use.

By: New Twitter Visualization Tools Coming: First Is Twitter Blocks « the blog of huntaub

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:28:23 +0000

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By: muhammad.saleem » twitter launches explore: an overview of twitter blocks

muhammad.saleem » twitter launches explore: an overview of twitter blocks — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:40:06 +0000

[...] people search and the ability to import friends directly from your gmail address book, twitter has launched a new section on their site called explore. this section will be dedicated to tools created by the [...]

By: TechMalaya

TechMalaya — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:18:20 +0000

awesome twitter tools. i wonder how far twitter apps will go.

By: techmine

techmine — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:18:08 +0000

bekaar site hai yaar..(Twitter is — *yawn*).

By: Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:44:10 +0000

actually, for it’s worth, I get a couple of hundred reads per week from twitters I put out about my blog posts on infiniteregress.tv and lightonlightthrough.com – not much more than 1 percent of my overall reads – but, hey, every little bit helps … (and twitter’s also good for announcing radio and tv appearances)…

By: callingbull

callingbull — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:30:42 +0000

Twitter *needs* something like Jaiku channels.
Twitter *needs* better stability and working features (page2 broken).

Twitter does not need silly stuff like blocks.

Stamen has done really cool work in the past but this is not one of their better efforts.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:33:57 +0000

Ira – Maybe you just don’t have interesting friends?

In all reality, I find it interest to hear about what other people are experiencing on other parts of the planet. One really cool instance was searching through the public stream and finding others who were at the same conference as me, and then meeting them in real life.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:56:59 +0000

This post was a waste of time until I saw the reference to citypixel.com. Now that’s something unique. I prefer the Sims meets myspace at citypixel to Q*bert

By: Ira

Ira — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:23:12 +0000

Does anyone actually read other people’s twitters? They are boring as hell. That is why I think twitter will ultimately die, tons of content creation but 0 readers.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:22:58 +0000

Also, I think they could use some of the features Pownce has.

But they have one feature Pownce doesn’t — users. Lots of em.

It’d be interesting to know how many each has, but Twitter feels much richer.

Even so, now that they have the search feature, it’s more obvious how many people I know are NOT on Twitter (I can search for them and not find them now).

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:21:03 +0000

Nicole, I agree — we’re being used as monkeys to help increase their market capitalization.

Mark, their business plan is to be acquired by a telco for big bucks. I don’t say that based on inside info, rather by reading tea leaves.

By: Michal Migurski

Michal Migurski — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:58:15 +0000

Nicole, maybe you don’t understand what Blocks is doing: it helps *existing twitter users* discover *other existing twitter users*. People they might know, haven’t yet encountered, but might want to. This has nothing to do with senselessly attracting fresh blood, but it does improve the experience for people new to the party trying to figure out who’s already there.

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:22:01 +0000

I’d still like to see Twitter use some of that Red Bull to come up with a business plan. It’s one thing to make the service more useful but another kettle of fish to figure out how to make money from its users. Personally, I don’t get why Twitter has gained so much traction but maybe I’m just missing something.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:14:26 +0000

It is disappointing to see what actually is added. More features to discover new people? This is like more ways to discover ‘new customers’ instead of working the ones you already have, who already are invested in the product and you could potentially make money off instead of loosing it on them.

The youngest addidtion of yet again getting ‘more’ users begs the question if or if not twitter is trying to head for an exit.

As proven with Odeo – they are great with doing something first, and heading it first – but then please let somebody take over the real business, for the sake of the user and the shareholder.

The richness of the ecosystem shows how little they actually would have to do to get others to get more functionality basically for free. Disappointing.

I really hope pownce is paying attention; as they have a lot of the stuff needed already in place though they missed out on the parts where twitter gets the user going for them.

By: TechDumpster (living in First Life)

TechDumpster (living in First Life) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:26:47 +0000

Yawn. What a waste of life.

By: Jimmy Soho

Jimmy Soho — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:44:38 +0000

Anybody else having problems posting tweets to twitter at this moment? Every tweet I send seems to go to void.

By: anujk

anujk — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:42:55 +0000

well!! I don’t think Twitter is useless… and the new feature add ons are pretty neat… nothing special though… but still its an advancement…

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:42:16 +0000

Twitter has glue, will stick. It’s inventive, unique and the teens love it….hmm what other massive app did teens drive lately ??