StreamGraph Maps Twitter Word by Word

Ever since Twitter purchased Summize, we've been waiting to see what sort of new mashups and visualizations would pop up. The latest one to slide across our radar is StreamGraph, which visually maps the latest 200 tweets containing a given search word.

When you first load the page, the search word is 'interesting' and from there you can either do your own search or simply click one of the other associated words to load a new graph focused on that word.

You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user along with what amounts to a word frequency chart.

Here's how the site explains it:

The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with the search word. One of these series together with a time period are in a selected state and coloured red. The tweets that contain this word in the given time period are shown below the graph. You can click on another word series or time period to see different matches. In the match list you click on any word to create a different graph with tweets containing that word. You can also click on the user or comment icons and any URL to see the appropriate content in another window.

The result is a kind of word-by-word tour through the Twitterscape. Not necessarily high on the usefulness scale (unless perhaps you're a linguist), but good visual fun.

StreamGraph was created by Jeff Clark, who also did TwitArcs and Twitter Spectrum.

[via Twitter, natch]

See Also:

• Twitter Swallows Summize to Build Search Engine
• Tips For Becoming A Twitter Power User
• Get Started With the Twitter API