New features on Twist
by dbasch — 5 Comments »We just launched a new version of Twist with a number of new features:
- Updated look and feel. The page now displays percentage values (% of tweets that mention the concept) and highlights the intervals during which the concept was hot.
- Zooming in to a portion of the chart (by clicking and dragging the cursor) and getting information for a specific time (single-clicking a point in the chart).
- Context: we added a pane that shows tweets about the concept at a given time (peak or not). Also, when possible we display a brief explanation/definition of the topic (retrieved from Wikipedia) along with a link to the article.
- Browsing all hot topics from the past seven days. As hot topic detection is probably the most interesting and useful feature of Twist, we put all the hot topics in one page. There is a daily/weekly view and much more detailed information for each topic. Also, you can see what was hot at a given moment. When clicking on a point in the chart, the new pane shows other topics that were hot at that time.
- Better embed. It is now possible to embed a dynamic or static chart, choosing between two different sizes.
There is more, take a look at Twist’s Help and New Features.
Thanks for nice tool! Is it possible to configure y-axis so that it can show low volume things? Like this: http://twist.flaptor.com/?gram=resharper&table=0&tz=3
Ilya Ryzhenkov — February 13th, 2009 at 2:58 am
The new features are awesome. We’ve been using your charts as embeds in some of our posts to illustrate some of the main points. There’s one up now comparing Seesmic and tweetdeck.
themashnote — April 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Twist is neat and I’d like to recommend it to all my friends, but all the trends I really want to track (mostly tech terms, like “mysql” and “hadoop”) are beneath your “0%” threshold.
Steven Hazel — May 6th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Hi Steven,
We have been working on a meaningful way to track low volume concepts, we’ll release it very soon. Stay tuned!
dbasch — May 6th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Is there anyway to get data farther back than 30 days?
Steven Millman — May 28th, 2009 at 7:31 am