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Twitter Data Visualization: The Real Future of Twitter (that only Investors and Businessmen will like)

To know if Twitter will make you any money, You have to know when You'll get the most traffic click throughs to your blog (this thing). You need to know when the largest number of your followers are online. To find this out, since some have regular day jobs, I occasionally do an #onlinestats pole like THIS.

I generally get more RTs from my 5,000 followers than Aston Kutcher's 2 million because of THIS.

In this case, this many people RT'd THIS original tweet.

Notice how this twitter search view does you very little good as far as understanding the effectiveness of your tweet or the total reach? So, I would like to see the latent data visualized and represented as you see below.

(the "m" in seniority represents how many months the account has been active)

Once all the RT data is spidered and tossed into a simple database, a Twitter RT visualization engine can visualize the retweets in a useful way.

In business, you've got to have total transparency throughout the entire sales and marketing lifecycle

When data visualization experts create applications like the I FEEL app, it may be interesting and even anthropologically useful. But as far as business goes, investors have the money and the money needs visibility of marketing ROI. Now, Who wants to build this? I'll handle the business side if you make it happen. Tweet me @journik

To Comment or ReTweet this and look like a stud, copy RT @journik http://bit.ly/tweetviz and Tweet it on out

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Comments (2)

Jul 11, 2009
Jonathan_Starr said...
I could do the visualization pretty easily, except I could not get any stats from the onlinestats command you posted.
Aug 31, 2009
Bob Wan Qi Kim said...
Stats... ahh.. twitter stops serving search results past 3 weeks!! =(

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