Revisit: Real-time Visualization of Tweets

Revisit is a real-time visualization of the latest tweets around a specific topic(s) or hashtag. It can be used to create your own twitter wall at a  conference, a visual display at your company, or interactive display in the classroom. In contrast to other twitterwalls, it provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the  conversational threads established by retweets and replies.

The visualization and relationship of the tweets gives Revisit a unique look. Revisit lets you customize by choosing the search terms, giving it a title, choosing the maximum number of tweets to display (under 200 is recommended), and the option to show only tweets from today.

Here is one created by using the #smedu hashtag as the search term: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/revisit/#/%23smedu/%23SMEDU/50/false

Here is another sample using Revisit default sample showing even more relationship between tweets, replies, and retweets.

Due to limitations in the twitter API, only tweets from the last 8 days show up in the query. Also, retweets using twitter’s own retweet feature will not be recognized, as the necessary queries would quickly exceed
the API rate limits.