Tweet Clouds: what are you twittering about?

Written on April 9, 2008 – 12:35 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Twitter users can discuss the way you ought to Twitter for ages. Should you solely tell what you’re doing? Or is it better to post interesting links? Tip: if you’re trapped in a discussion like this, there’s a way to make it stop immediately. The magic words? You can always unfollow me.

These endless discussions start with an interesting question though: what are you twittering about? John Krutsch (scripting) and Jared Stein (design) developed a fun app that shows the words you’ve mentioned most by generating a tag cloud. This is ours:

Check your tweet cloud too at Tweet Clouds. Be warned though, it takes 0.04 seconds per tweet. For example, it took 30 minutes to generate Stowe Boyd’s tweet cloud. So as John and Jared say, better grab a beverage while waiting for the insightful results.

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4 comments to “Tweet Clouds: what are you twittering about?”

By Sarah on Apr 9, 2008

TweetStats (http://tweetstats.com) now has the same feature.
What would be nice: if you click one of the tags (f.e “social”), you get all the tweets including the word “social”. Maybe some day :-)

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Apr 9, 2008

@Sarah that would be really interesting indeed. Sometimes I just wish that Twitter would integrate this stuff themselves… On the other hand, it does lead to an ongoing stream of creative and innovative little apps like Tweet Clouds

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By Sarah on Apr 9, 2008

If twitter would integrate this stuff themselfs, we woudln’t have to go to 10 sites.. we would have it all on twitter.com. I love it if related stuff is one 1 place :-)

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By Sarah on Apr 9, 2008

ps: Just saw the “Share your story” on http://twitter.com/home.. don’t know how long it’s been there, first time I see it. Maybe we should tell them!

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