Creative Twitter Uses: TweetTracker Map

I recently ran across two fun articles that listed creative uses for Twitter. The first, 10 Examples of Creative Twitter Uses and the follow up article, 10 MORE Examples of Creative Twitter Uses written by a company called Search Engine Marketing Group. Both of these blog posts contain interesting and sometimes even amusing utilizations for marketing tactics via Twitter.

For those of you just getting into the social networking scene, Twitter is a free social networking and status update service that enables its users to post and view messages known as tweets which has been gaining daily popularity exponentially. Twitter's core functionality is simply a way for a company, group, organization or individual to comment on their passing musings or microblog about their daily details. However, with any great utility it ultimately inspires creative reinvention. The Twitter service it seems has become a muse.

On reflection, I decided to share some of my recent finds from across the globe of other creative uses for Twitter.

TweetTracker Map:
Stamen Design, a San Francisco based design and technology studio, that has been developing some truly innovative interactive projects is responsible for the TweetTracker map that displays recent tweets about Hope For Haiti Now and mentions of Haiti from around the world displayed from MTV's website. The animated map serves as a powerful visual representation on global awareness and as a creative way to showcase the essence of viral conversation globally using data from Twitter posted tweets.
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Written by Jaime Palmer, Website and Creative Director for Black Kat Studio on February 3, 2010.