Trends on Twitter? Try Twendz
Got clued in from @johnweiss who apparently has been doing work on a new app called Twendz. Twendz is a new internet-based app that mines Twitter for data and uses it in an engaging and dynamic way. [Also can I quickly point out that I think it's hilarious that the is.gd that John received for the link was http://is.gd/n0ob ?]
So what exactly is Twendz? According to their site:
Twendz is a glimpse into what’s on people’s minds and their emotional reaction. Mining Twitter conversations alerts you to brewing trends, conversation topics and points of view. twendz uses a keyword-based approach to score tweets. Meaningful words in each tweet are compared against a “dictionary” of thousands of words that are associated with positive or negative sentiment; each word receives a score that, when combined with the other scored words, allows twendz to make an educated guess at the overall tone of a tweet. After twendz scores a handful of tweets matching certain criteria, it extracts key terms, assigns a tone rating to each of those, and assembles them in a word cloud.
Anyhow, check it out, mess around with it, leave some thoughts in the comments.
