Visualization of popular Iran uprising tweets

Gilad sez,

ReTweet Revolution is a visual exploration of the most popular conversation threads that were passed amongst Twitter users at the time of the events following the recent Iranian elections earlier in June of 2009. The applet displays 372 of the most popular threads extracted from a pool of over 230,000 messages posted on Twitter between June 14th and June 24th, polled from the public timeline at regular intervals.

By clicking on a specific topical thread, it is possible to view its network structure: how the message was ReTweeted from one user to another and how its content changed as it was passed along. It is also possible to see posts that were obviously "retweets" but with no attribution to the original source.

ReTweet Revolution (Thanks, Gilad!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, August 21, 2009 4:00 PM]

I love visualizations, but isn't this a potential tool of the faux regime to selectively torture and destroy the most effective resistors?

[#2 posted by Anonymous, August 22, 2009 4:22 AM]

I love visualizatons too, but I wouldn't worry too much about the use of this tool by the faux regime in Iran... unless they have an easier time with it than I did. I found it just about impossible to make sense. There's a wide gulf between aggregating data and making sense out of it, and --just my opinion -- this errs on the side of raw aggregation.