Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets

Written on January 27, 2008 – 5:57 pm
David Petherick, Contributing Editor, United Kingdom

A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart’s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace… the slight drawback is that the site is almost entirely in Japanese, but don’t worry, I’ve found the English interface so you can make your own Twitter Balloon.

The important element that I love is the ability to go back and forward in time to follow the history of one’s twitterings, or tweets, so one can follow a conversation or thread of insights and ideas. These may admittedly be somewhat disjointed, but more interesting that simply having the ‘latest’ information presented. I can see an nice extension of this with a tweet balloon gallery, or even a mashup where those referenced by one user’s conversation can be linked to dynamically, or to follow how a topic or issue is being discussed.

follow clarocada at http://twitter.com
developed by korelab

Here’s one I created for my friend Boris:

follow bomega at http://twitter.com
developed by korelab

Do your own thing at Korelab’s English Twitter Balloon Creation Page.

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About the author: Scotsman David Petherick is a director & co-founder of several companies, and is a freelance social media strategy & visibility expert. David became known as ‘The Digital Biographer’ after a 2007 BBC interview, speaks Russian, wears the Kilt, and is a co-author for the book 'Age of Conversation 2.0'.

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3 comments to “Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets”

By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jan 29, 2008

Weird. In Safari my photo only shows up as a 16×16 image and upside down. In Firefox it does work…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/t.....228373988/

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By Yogini on Aug 12, 2008

For some reason, it seems to be down. Every one I’ve seen says cannot load…other than that, it seems nice.

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By Paula on Oct 1, 2008

Can’t load a picture, but can load the twitter updates fine. Argghhh!

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