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5 Fab Twitter Follower Visualization Tools. We've brought you a few roundups of some pretty cool Twitter visualization tools in the past, and now we're back with five more for your Twitter-lovin' pleasure. The selection we've curated here concentrates on graphically presenting your followers, contacts and various snippets of information related to them. If you're interested in seeing what your Twitter followers look like as a keyword cloud, on parade, or even on a mug, then have a look at the tools below and let us know your thoughts in the comments. 1. TwitterSheep This is a really simple, but super fun way to look at your Twitter followers. TwitterSheep generates a keyword cloud based on the text in your followers' bios. 2. 5k Twitter Browser Neuro Productions' Flash-based Twitter browser is a spacey way to "see" connections on Twitter, something that is nearly impossible on the site itself. 3. 4. 5.

v2.0 :: a geekier, faster way to bulk add quality followers. Real Time Search - Social Mention. Twazzup: Realtime News. 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web. Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites.

His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent.

At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” Storify is currently invite only. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion.