Information Aesthetics showcased a device that will display the rate of tweets from some of the Tweetingest places around the world. They’re calling it, the Tweet-o-Meter. Basically it shows tweet velocity in Tweets per minute. So if you want to know how many tweets are going on at any given time in, say Munich… well then the Tweet-o-Meter can give you a reading.
Aggregate data is interesting, however, I personally don’t see much use for this kind of general data around tweet speed. Time and geography are important functions of any search, but it’s the context that brings it all together. What words do you care about from within all of those tweets? So to me, what city tweets faster than the other seems to be good for novelty use at best… unless I’m missing something.
Read more about the project here. And let me know what you think about the value of tweets per minute…
There are many Chris Hall's in this world. This one blogs and tweets under the code name: hallicious.
