Tweetelection’s Tweetfographics
There has certainly been a recent surge in twitter-related data visualization. People love to aggregate all the online chatter into visualizations that are easy to digest. This a good way to identify trending topics and popular thought. Tweetlection, built by Sense Internet, is a interesting new online tool that harvests and analyzes thousands of tweets each day so that you can see what Tweeters have been saying about the three main political parties in the past 7 days. They use interactive graphs to let you explore how twitter users have reacted to the events of the last week. You can drag and select a particular time period, use key words to focus on a particular topics and see how Tweet volumes for this topic have varied over time.