Oct 7, 2009
TwitScoop Buzzin.. just for me?
The TwitScoop tag cloud in TweetDeck is cool, but its a bit… global.
One of the columns you can select to view is called “Buzzin..”, powered by TwitScoop. TwitScoop tracks all Traffic on titter and allows you to see how much there is for each phrase or word that is “hot” NOW.
Click on a word and you can see a trend graph on the TweetDeck homepage showing when the word hit, how it spiked and how “hot” it is. It’s interesting how quick things spike and die on the twittersphere. You really don’t get 15 minutes any more.
Anyway
I would find it a lot more useful if I could limit the tweet pool it is pulled from to people in my social network, the people they follow (2 degrees of separation) and perhaps people within 100 miles of my location so I get local news fast (it’s fire season).
Now that would be a trend tag-cloud that I would keep an eye on. Anyone seen such a thing?
UPDATE – forgot to mention, part of the motivation for this idea was
It’s Time To Hide The Noise by Erick Schonfeld
I just read your post and am trying to understand your points. I would like to chat more could you restate or expand on your points.
James Coe
Hi James, thanks for the question..
I think it would be useful if there was a way for me to limit the demographic that makes us the Buzzin pool so that the results were more relevant to my interests.
One easy one would be to limit it geographical… here’s what’s “buzzin within 100 miles of Chicago” for instance
Or here’s what’s Buzzin in the extended follow group of “who i follow AND who they follow”
Or a way to combine both results.