RetweetRadar Adds Context Around Re-Tweeting

Although there's not a lot of space when it comes to retweeting, you can extract insights from what people are saying around them. That was what many of you said in commenting on my post the other day. That's where Retweetradar comes in.

Using the Google App Engine, Retweet Radar looks for trends in all of the re-tweeting over the last hour and pulls them into a nice tag cloud. It auto-refreshes every two minutes. Click on a term and it will take you to the conversation on search.twitter.com. (One of my hopes in 2009 is that Twitter finally integrates this into the main site.)

Nice effort by Ben Hedrington

Comments

[Ben]

Wow Steve thanks for the nice words, if was a fun one day proof of concept project on Google App Engine that may live on... I encourage any development leaning web folks to read my post on RetweetRadar.com: http://bit.ly/15h3 To me it's not just about the tool I build but about the larger trends of cloud computing and how quickly I was able to leveraging powerful tools available to any of us like Google App Engine, Open APIs and libraries like jQuery to go from concept to launch in about a days work!

Thanks,-Ben HedringtonCreator - http://spy.appspot.com and http://www.retweetradar.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/benhedringtonMore contact: http://www.buildcontext.com/blog/about/

[Squasher98]

This is also a great read on the data behind retweets: http://bit.ly/WE3k

Example: "ReTweets occur at an average rate of around 258 per hour, and show a distinct increase during the work day and early evening."

http://twitter.com/squasher98