8 Free Tools to Visualize Information on Twitter

There’s a lot of noise on Twitter. People use a variety of ways to filter through that noise, from following specific lists, finding like-minded people through third party sites, or using a variety of services and websites to find the information that matters to them on Twitter. Another interesting way to filter through what is being said on Twitter, and better yet, analyse it, is to visualize it. This is certainly not a new idea, and we’ve written about some services in the past that will allow you to do just that. With the world around Twitter constantly growing and developing, it’s no surprise that since then there are a ton more services allowing you to visualize your followers, Twitter stream and your own personal Twitter stats. Portwiture Portwiture is definitely one of the more unique visual Twitter apps that you’ll find. Portwiture matches the content of your tweets to photographs that have been uploaded to Flickr. Cloud.li Tori’s Eye TweetStats Trendistic TwitterMap 5K Twitter Browser

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Twitter Search 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. Network Diagrams Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty. These network diagrams attempt to show the relationships that exist among users. Twitter Browser Twitter Social Network Analysis The ebiquity group did some cluster analysis and managed to group tweets by topic. Twitter Vrienden Twitter in Red I'm not completely sure how to read this one. Twitter Network Maps When you create a Twitter account, you can enter where you are located, so in my case, I put New York. TwiterVision Yeah, it's a Google Maps mashup, but a bit better than what you're used to seeing. TwitterVision3d It's TwitterVision taken to the next dimension. Analytics TweetStat

Blackboard Tips Pixuffle - Shuffle pixels to create unique compositions! Ahijuna Estudio | Disegno & Musique TwitLonger - When you talk too much for Twitter Top 10 Exciting Things To Do on Twitter Note: First ever GUEST POST on this blog. Authored by Nicky @rocksstar10 and drafted by me @arkarthick (More details about Nicky after the post) So you think Twitter is a waste of time? Well, you need to think again. Image Credit: Geek and Poke If used wisely, correctly, twitter can be a treasure chest of information. 1. There are tons of tools to measure how well you’re doing on Twitter in terms of influence, engagement, impact, trends and more. A) Klout – Measure your social media influence and reputation across the web, specifically on Twitter. B) TweetEffect – Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. C) TweetStats – Graph your Twitter stats including Tweets per hour / per day / per month, Tweet timeline, Tweet density, Reply (@ mentions), Who you retweet most, Tweet cloud etc. D) Retweet Rank – Find your (or any other Twitter user’s) Retweet (RT) rank which is a representative of the number of times you have been retweeted by others recently on twitter. 2.