Twitscoop: Real-time tag cloud, search engine for Twitter

Want to know what people are talking about on Twitter without actually bothering to go to Twitter? Check out a Twitter-focused search engine. Summize and Twitscoop can both help you answer questions like "does the new Will Smith movie stink?" or "is Nancy Pelosi really trying to ban Twitter from Congress?" But this week Twitscoop rolled out a nifty new feature that makes it even easier to see what people are talking about without typing anything at all in the search box: a tag cloud that's updated in real-time.

The video above should give you an idea of what the tag cloud looks like, but the video capture software slowed our computer down a bit, so imagine the whole thing sped up a bit. As more and more Twitter users enter keywords in their messages, the tag cloud is updated.

Twitscoop's tag cloud should make for interesting reading during a major news event like a presidential debate. But even on slower news days, Twitscoop provides an overview of the conversations taking place among Twitter users. Sure, they're probably not representative of the public at large, but they're certainly representative of something... early adopters maybe?

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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