TweetWheel

TweetWheel is yet another example of how a system as simple and elegant as Twitter can, with a suitably open API, spawn all sorts of interesting and useful applications.

You give TweetWheel your Twitter username and it shows you all the people you follow and draws arcs among them to show you which of your friends are following each other.  It's a little buggy - not all the arcs show up, but it's an interesting way to measure the density of your social network.  UPDATE: The developer says TweetWheel only fetches the first 100 friends for each of your friends, so that's why it can sometimes miss connections.

TweetWheel is the work of Augusto Becciu in Buenos Aires.

Thanks to Paul Grous for alerting me to this one and illustrating one of the valuable aspects of Twitter:  "If the news is important it will find me,"

Comments

[Michael White]

The Friend Wheel Facebook application does a similar thing. http://apps.facebook.com/friendwheel/