Twitter Time Machine - a spiral of @replies and retweets

[cooldude3010]

html5 should let stats like these be created on normal pages. not videos.... that'll be epic.

[99fabfab]

yo si lei el studio y de verdad me dio miedo.

[diogoriba]

cool! @chy1013m1 how much time is a complete loop in the spiral?

[irjajit]

The length of the video is 1:40, a tweet has a 140-character limit.

[michaeledelstone]

Is this a video of the sun engulfing the earth? Is twitter the harbinger of the apocalypse?

[iisan7]

This is interesting, but it would be better with either a fixed scale/i.e. the picture grows so that the tweets remain to scale by time and weight (number of replies). Alternatively show the scale and make it change in time as the scale gets smaller. Otherwise it's hard to compare what we're seeing towards the end with what's at the beginning.

[tommy4bz]

I can only assume the one "tweet" that was by far the largest had to be Michael Jackson dying. But this is a pointless exercise anyway...

[jamiedubs]

This needs rap music

[radcliffco]

this looks like a vertigo scene reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock! I feel dizzy watching it!

[proceedapathy]

Dammit, all those lost tweets! Now follow @raymondroman

[mazdotnu]

So you've got an axis for time... but what's the scale?

[lisawain7]

wtf?

[hazymat]

Just saw this at sysomos website.

That was the most statistically pornographic thing I have ever seen.

Mmmm. Social media stats.

[shirleytempleblues]

@hazymat Hello—To the one out of six persons who even knew what s/he was seeing. I just wanted to commend you for thinking. You are a bit of fresh air. I don’t tweet so we are social media history before anyone sees this. Cheers to life in the fast lane. stb

[eyalsela10]

I have no idea what this means.