revisit is a real–time visualization of twitter messages (tweets) around a specific topic. You can create your own twitter wall at a conference or an ambient display at your company or whatever use you come up with. In contrast to other twitter stream tools, it provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the conversational threads established by retweets and @replies.
revisit aligns all twitter messages for your search terms along a timeline. Tweets that receive more attention – in form of retweets or @replies – go to the center of the stream and are displayed larger. The above image displays the visual summary of the see5 conference, where revisit was first presented publicly. Find an archived version of the revisit version for this event here.
When new tweets arrive, they are brought to the front and highlighted. Otherwise, a random tweet is picked, with a preference on newer and more "important" tweets. The tweet's connections to others (via retweets or @replies) are indicated with colored connections. Related tweets are expanded, too, so you can read the text and follow the conversational context.
A more complex conversational situation, with multiple interconnected retweets and replies.
Limitations
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.
Source code + standalone version
can be downloaded at github
