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TwitScoop is a website that shows recent spikes on Twitter and links to users’ postings. In addition, the trends are supplemented with visual data representing mentions over the past few hours. Another cool feature is an animated word cloud, shrinking/enlarging words gradually as they fade in and out of popularity.

I know most people are probably tired of reading about Twitter remixes, but this one is particularly well designed. It’s simple and functional, providing me with informatoin that very well may be relevant to my interests (the now).

In addition, there is a search tool and more information available for trends directly from the home page. Your Twitter credentials will suffice as an account login for TwitScoop. If only their API supported exporting these visualizations, or creating animated word clouds with terms of your choosing — there’d be some real value in that. So far it appears to restrict the API for hot trends (from their home page) only.

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