A Very Beta ReTweet Mapper

I’ve been work­ing on a ReTweet map­ping sys­tem for a while, in fact, I’ve already pub­lished some data I accu­mu­lated while build­ing it. The idea is to index all ReTweets and map them to each other so that visual dis­play and pro­gram­matic analy­sis can be done on the struc­ture of viral mes­sag­ing on Twitter.

Now, I can finally pub­lish a rough beta ver­sion of the map­ping sys­tem. Click on the images to use the fea­tures. Please keep in mind: this all very beta still, and rough around the edges.

   

The ReTweet map­per is the core of the sys­tem, it indexes ReTweet streams into hier­ar­chi­cal struc­tures that can be dis­played visu­ally as they are here. It also allows for fur­ther analy­sis as seen below.






The search fea­ture allows you to search for ReTweet streams that match key­words, phrases, user­names or links. The search results page shows the orig­i­nal Tweet that started the stream that matched your query. Click­ing on the Tweet brings you to the ReTweet map of that stream.






The most ReTweeted page shows a leader­board of those users who were ReTweeted the most in the last day, hour or week. Click­ing on the name of a user leads to a search for that user’s name.