Terence Eden’s Blog

(re) Introducing TweeView - a Tree Visualisation for Twitter Conversations

@edentdata tweeview twitter · 3 comments · 450 words · read ~699 times.

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Previously on Terence Eden's blog... About 4 years ago, I wrote about Visualising Twitter Conversations in 2D Space. Based on an idea by Lucy Pepper, I built a quick hack to show what Twitter threads actually looked like. Well, lockdown finally got the best of me, and I finished the project! TweeView.ml Here are a few screenshots of "interesting" trees, and a little bit about how it works. In this example, the user has a main thread that they are posting on: You can see that a few people…

Visualising Twitter Conversations in 3D Space

@edentdata tweeview twitter · 6 comments · 450 words · read ~1,627 times.

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Here's set of visualisation I've been working on. Last night, at #TapIntoTwitter, I demonstrated a fun way to view your Twitter conversations as a force-directed graph in 3D space. I'm going to show it off to you, then explain how it works. This is a designed as a "fun" demo. Here we go! So, what's going on? As I've previously blogged about, Twitter has a new conversations API. That allows you to get Tweet replies in a tree-like structure. A small conversation looks something like this: …