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TwitterSketch: A Twitter Experiment
TwitterSketch is the result of some experiments I've been doing lately using the Twitter API (via Tweetr) to control dynamic Flash animations.
It searches Twitter for the most recent posts that contain either direction words ("up" "down" "left" or "right") or color words ("red" "blue" "green" etc). The drawing 'cursor' creates circles of varying sizes and fades older circles over time. The app reads Twitter results word by word - when a matching word comes up it either moves the cursor or changes the color. If the word doesn't match, the cursor continues drawing at the last color or position. New results are fetched every 20 seconds, causing a slight delay between realtime posts and visual output.
As words become more frequent, overall moods and motion trends will start to appear. For example, it seems that "up" is generally more frequently used than "down".
The more I watch the animation, the more ideas come to mind including future explorations on mining public data sources (like Twitter) to graph trends or just to creating interesting artistic systems that are essentially controlled by the public subconscious.
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Rad.
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Wow!...That is so designy-nerdtastic! Ephemeral and geeky.
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I love this Pete! Great little experiment. Looking forward to seeing you do more.
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Super interesting. It seems like there might be an opportunity to choose the terms and the rendering characteristics based on a more specific concept in order to highlight meaningful trends. I'd love to spend some time thinking about this.
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cool. love it. now... when something is loved, what happens? people want more. more, pete, more. direction and color are driven by actual twitter data -- the size of the circle should be "driven". the current amount of traffic? the number of DMs, Replies or RTs? I don't know. but I want to see each parameter of your sketch app to draw from the data/tool that you feed on for a true (truer?) picture of what 's going on.
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Nice stuff Pete.
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I want this to be my desktop background. Very neat experiment!
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Cool. You must add some sound – just som bip and bobs.
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Thanks for putting this out to the public. Have you seen http://wefeelfine.org?
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Pete u Rock! How about a cuss word version ;-)
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Pretty Cool. I love apps that feed my inner geek.
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I've been using audio data-generated colorshapes for years. This could be big
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Well done Pete!
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WOW! Really cool stuff congrats! We´re also working with something similar by plotting specifics twits on a kaleidoscope. Check it out: http://www.twitradar.com Please, tell us what are your thought about it and perhaps if we could contribute in this visual twitter sniffing tools. best wishes, Norton
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Sounds cool. I think the app would make an interesting game of twister!
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Real nice! Thanks for using tweetr for this :)
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Great thing, man. respect from ruusian twttr comunity))
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This is fantastic. Perhaps using booleans or phrases could produce real-time information graphics to measure public opinion on national events, disasters, etc. This could be really grand!
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Very cool! Gonna go download tweetr and have a play.
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Very cool! Gonna go download tweetr and have a play.
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Hello there again!! We´ve just lauched TwitRadar.com as a free service. It offers visual and rich media interfaces for Twitter tag searches. Would you guys be interested in creating new kinds of data visualization such as the TwitterSkecth for public use? We´re inviting creative firms and professionals for a special radars section to be feature at digital arts festivals. The Brazilian portuguese version is already available. The english and chinese version are under development and coming really soon. Please get in touch for more info. Thanks a lot!! Best wishes, Norton visit: http://www.twitradar.com
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Would you considering showing us your source?
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