Comments on: Green Twitter – Aggregating the Feeds of Green Twits http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/green-twitter-aggregating-the-feeds-of-green-twits/ Kim Woodbridge WordPress Consultant Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Green Twit Clouds | (Anti) Social Development http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/green-twitter-aggregating-the-feeds-of-green-twits/#comment-80 Green Twit Clouds | (Anti) Social Development Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/?p=94#comment-80 [...] Wescott’s comment on my post Green Twitter - Aggregating the Feeds of Green Twits suggested that we create tag clouds from the RSS feeds of people discussing the environment on [...] [...] Wescott’s comment on my post Green Twitter – Aggregating the Feeds of Green Twits suggested that we create tag clouds from the RSS feeds of people discussing the environment on [...]

]]> By: David Wescott http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/green-twitter-aggregating-the-feeds-of-green-twits/#comment-53 David Wescott Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:51:50 +0000 http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/?p=94#comment-53 Thanks Kim - you raise an interesting point here. The "green tweeters" are absolutely talking about a whole host of topics, and if you're looking for a 100 percent eco-talk feed, this isn't it. (Chris Baskind's environment room at FriendFeed might be a better place for that.) But I do think this might teach us a little bit about both the green community (at least this particular group) and about how people use Twitter. It's interesting to know which tweeters are singularly focused on eco-stuff and which ones use twitter to share other (perhaps more personal or informal) information. It's also interesting to compare the discussion from this crowd on Twitter with the discussion taking place in a separate social media channel like a blog. If we took the feed of your opml file and ran it through a cloud generator - like I do on the blog Virtual Vantage Points for a number of online communities - and compared it to the cloud generated by this new Green Tweet feed, I bet the clouds would look a bit different. A bit nerdy perhaps, but interesting and hopefully illustrative of both the community and the tools they use. Thanks so much for getting this line of thinking started! David Wescotts last blog post - <a href="http://itsnotalecture.blogspot.com/2008/06/alltop.html" rel="nofollow">Alltop</a> Thanks Kim – you raise an interesting point here. The “green tweeters” are absolutely talking about a whole host of topics, and if you’re looking for a 100 percent eco-talk feed, this isn’t it. (Chris Baskind’s environment room at FriendFeed might be a better place for that.) But I do think this might teach us a little bit about both the green community (at least this particular group) and about how people use Twitter.

It’s interesting to know which tweeters are singularly focused on eco-stuff and which ones use twitter to share other (perhaps more personal or informal) information. It’s also interesting to compare the discussion from this crowd on Twitter with the discussion taking place in a separate social media channel like a blog. If we took the feed of your opml file and ran it through a cloud generator – like I do on the blog Virtual Vantage Points for a number of online communities – and compared it to the cloud generated by this new Green Tweet feed, I bet the clouds would look a bit different.

A bit nerdy perhaps, but interesting and hopefully illustrative of both the community and the tools they use. Thanks so much for getting this line of thinking started!

David Wescotts last blog post – Alltop

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