2378 Social Collider [WebApp]

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Social Collider is a collaboration between Karsten Schmidt aka Toxi and Sascha Pohflepp, a JavaScript visualization to reveal cross-connections between conversations on Twitter. The project launched 2 days ago and has been commissioned by Google for their Chrome Experiments collection we mentioned yesterday.

The project is about a representation of instant connectedness, the amount of data we constantly produce and how much if it can reveal astonishing relationships if only looked at through time. This particular example explores relationships between users or topics on Twitter.

This experiment explores these possibilities by starting with messages on the microblogging-platform Twitter. One can search for usernames or topics, which are tracked through time and visualized much like the way a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter. Posts that didn’t resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did, however, spin off and horizontally link to users or topics who relate to them, either directly or in terms of their content.

You can read in detail about the project in the recent post on Toxi’s postspectacular.com blog.

In addition follow @socialcollider on Twitter for project updates or @toxi himself.

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