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Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/20/07.

I’ve shown off Twittervision to just about everyone that I can…I figure that I ought to include it here in the blog. Careful though: I find this so addictive that I’ve interrupted this blog entry four times so far to see what is being posted.

If you don’t know Twitter, it’s a micro blog platform where users write what they’re doing in “tweets” of 140 characters or less. Twitter’s tipping point seems to have been at SXSW this year, closely followed by a New York Times Magazine article which catapulted it into the spotlight.

Twittervision is a geographic representation of posts to Twitter in real time that indicates where on the globe those twitters are from. To me, watching the posts on Twittervision brings back the wonder that I felt reading early websites back in ’94, especially in those serendipitous moments when a group of people from different parts of the world post about the same topic like being hungry, tired or getting out of work.

I’ve been pitching Twitter as a medium to keep audiences in contact with brands and disseminate updates. Hopefully these ideas will bear fruit in the next month or two. Until then, enjoy the view.

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