TwittEarth Makes Twitter A Global Experience
Jason Kincaid
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Twitter visualizations are nothing new, but they always provide a great way to waste some time. The newest, TwittEarth, is eye-candy at its finest - a mesmerizing and mostly useless diversion that sticks you in space and whips you around the globe to see a new geo-located tweet every ten seconds. Tweets are accompanied by small, goofy icons that remain static on the map, eventually providing an interesting representation of usage distribution.
The app itself is very simple at this point. There don’t seem to be any settings to speak of, and there isn’t any way to stray from the default view. Users can login to the application and send their own messages, but it’s far more fun to zone out and watch tweets pop up around the globe.
TwittEarth is available as a Windows screen saver (a Mac version is on the way), and was created by Digitas France SA.
Very interesting app…
Speaking of Twitter, check out our tool to track trends within the past week. The UI is not as pretty but it’s more useful:
http://twist.flaptor.com
Looks like my comment got stuck in moderation… or it didn’t take.
This makes twitter really amazing
It seems like almost everyday another new twitter website or app has launched in the last 2 weeks. Projects like this keep me and other interested in twitter.
Thanks for the post.
I’m http://twitter.com/waynesutton on twitter and I’m an early adopter (#874) still using twitter.
An interesting application, this will make twitter much more interesting.
Reminds me of twittervision (the 3d vsn that is)_
Twitter toy
other than having some lively feeling from which part of the world a person is sharing information, it doesn’t add much of the value to the information.
this looks similar to twittervision. No new concept…only graphics is good.
Definitely a Twittervision ripoff. Looks prettier, but not as much functionality. http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d
So far the presentation is visually attractive, obviously the users will more likely look for functionality.
again another example of an app that has no practical use but is still impressive and enjoyable. The global presence of Twitter however is astonishing when viewing it through the Twittearth lens.
mike keep up the good work on covering the useless app space. I don’t care what anyone says, I enjoy reading about it.
The twittEarth is so cool. There might be another twitter-like app. in the next few weeks.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
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http://us.the1000links.com
Nice! yeah just watching the earth turning around is fun. ah But screensaver won’t work on my env. (Proxy settings not supported?)
I know the power of twitter, that’s why I came her again.. to let others know that United Nations millennium campaign is also on twitter
http://twitter.com/endpoverty2015
Also, I appealed to Hillary Clinton, Obama .etc. who are having large number of followers.. requested them to urge their followers to follow me… but they didn’t even respond.
http://twitter.com/endpoverty2...../790300024
Can you publish it on your blog?