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“I used to believe that time was the most important thing I have, but I’ve come to believe differently. The single most valuable resource I have is uninterrupted thought.”
— Adam Brault - I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly everything (via courtenaybird)
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Emoto captured and visualised the global response around the London 2012 Olympic Games on Twitter
“The installation is made up of 19 milled plates, each representing one day. The hills and valleys of the landscapes represents the ups and downs of the games as experienced by audiences world-wide.”
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“Welsh computer consultant Nat Morris put its IT skills to work, and developed an ingenious system that lets him feed his pet friend Toby with a single tweet. To make sure there’s always some dog biscuits in the bowl, all he has to do is to send a message to @feedtoby for the food to be automatically released”
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This is Molly, the latest addition to the Olly family. She turns your retweets into sweets.
You can fund her on Kickstarter.
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“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia, security experts said.”
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FRSTEE by RIG is a 3D printed snowman - generated by your Twitter data.
You can make your own (and have it delivered to you) at frstee.com
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A visualisation of London’s Twitter activity as collected by Fabian Neuhaus (@urbantick)’s New City Landscapes project
“With the visualisation we are highlighting the way information disseminates through re-tweeting of messages. An RT message will show a thin yellow line between original sender and re-sender. The information travels at some speed, which is based on the time it takes between sending and resending.”
More on the UrbanTick blog.
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Nike Shout by Ogilvy Singapore linked networked perimeter displays with a Facebook page and twitter hashtag to allow Indonesian football fans to broadcast their messages during a match - live.
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Talking Tree is a project by EOS, a science and nature magazine from Belgium. A hundred year old tree in Brussels has been fitted with a complex system of cameras, sensors and solar panels that are monitoring its activities and translating them into words.
