Preview: The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3 on Flickr

b_d_solis says:

Twitter connects people through a rich and active exchange of ideas, thoughts, observations, and interests in one, highly collaborative and promising ecosystem. The Twitterverse advances micro interaction and connections through an expanding network of applications, engendering the potential for macro reach and resonance online and IRL.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

b_d_solis says:

Read about each app on PR 2.0: www.briansolis.com/2008/10/twitter-tools-for- community-an...
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Jesse Thomas says:

:)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

b_d_solis says:

Thanks Anders, the social marketing compass is next....
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

adamsherk says:

Looks good. This will be hard to keep current!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

benluttrull says:

This is absolutely incredible stuff.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jimgoldstein says:

Great mapping of the Twitterverse. I'll be taking a closer look and will certainly pass on any suggestions I might come up.

--
Seen on your photo stream. (?)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

michael.silverton says:

Exactly. Also, like @adamsherk says, it's kind of like a snapshot of the BigBang.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

lukefrancl says:

Thanks for including Follow Cost! :)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

ericherberholz says:

Wow, great project. I look forward to release of The Twitterverse!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

brunoanconalopes says:

Awesome Brian! Will this be clickable?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

fionabosticky says:

Just amazing, I wonder how far twitter apps will go?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Lori Laurent Smith says:

You have a gift for organizing the complex, Brian. Love the idea of a spiral universe as a graphic foundation. Comments for improvement:

1. Add a legend that defines what each 'arm' means. Short definitions would help clarify, for example, the difference between Stream Management, Communication Management and Relationship Management.

2. You have Twitter in the center as well as in a couple of the arms. It's confusing what the message is with that approach. Personally I'd leave Twitter where it is and remove it from other places since it is implicit with that view that Twitter is all of the arms.

Somewhat related is Brightkite appearing in two arms. If you make an editorial decision that some apps will appear in multiple categories, it would be helpful to explain why to the user.

3. Why is event management separate from marketing/advertising? Since it only has one app, it might be better served to fold into the larger category (at least for the 1.0 version).

4. IMHO, I wld add an arm called 'content' to include apps like Twitpic (images), Twerbose (words), Seesmic or similar (video).

Hope that helps. Can't wait to see your next version.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

candees says:

Perhaps a section on Branding (or integrate it into the Marketing string)? I work for www.twitbacks.com/, which allows Twitter users to brand their background, and there are other similar background apps out there as well that you could add to that (branding) section.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

DustyReagan says:

This is amazing! Thanks for including FriendOrFollow.com. Please consider adding FeaturedUsers.com to Marketing / Advertising. :)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

WordSpring says:

Wow - it's beautiful! But for the life of me, I can't see Tweetdeck which I guess would go under Stream Management, or TwitPic, or the Flock Browser.

It will be difficult indeed, to keep this current.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

UganderP says:

I think you covered it greatly but one that i couldn't find on live streaming is Bambuser.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

dave1meyer says:

I also didn't see DearTweetie on the list - matches "experts" with advice queries ala Dear Abby.

Also, when this comes out can you publish a text/link version too? Great tools.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

b_d_solis says:

Thanks everyone, please keep sharing what you think we should add, delete, change, move, etc.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

@b_d_solis Thanks! And congratz to the virality - (very expected given the Twitter Sociology/Social Psychology/Anthropology related to your point at #disruptivemedia of "introvert" SM conversations - conversing the tools in themselves rather than content and form of conversation in a wider context - thus my pointer towards the Social Media Maketing Compass!) - search.twitter.com/search?q=twitterverse

Just wondering re: selection criteria for this Twitterverse thingie? As referred to, the number of apps are so many more than you managed to include. I understand the graphic has a natural limit not to be cluttered, but there are some obvious exclusions I wonder strongly about -

First and foremost - TweetDeck! I tried to look it through, but I just can't find it! Should be nearby Twhirl (check those two apps with a vs. in Google search, dude...). Another one - TwitPic?? By far one of the most popular twitter-related services overall! TweeTube falls into that category also (in one leg "media sharing" that is missing overall).

With these top three on my mind (there are more missing like Twtvite that already has become one standard invite/event app for the "event management" leg), I just wonder how the underlying research process was designed.

Check e. g. blendingthemix.com/2009/01/23/the-most-popula r-100-twitte... to complement the list with some "obvious" missing-outs.

Moreover - how do you define "twitterverse"? Isn't conversations about twitter in general, not just apps and services, a part of Twitterverse as well? Maybe to include some Blogerati solely focusing Twitter with a great reader-base and influence. E. g. Probloogger Darren Rowse's twitip.com if we slide into this area of the greater "twitterverse".

Otherwise, stunning content with great sorting and abstraction in the meta-analysis and appropriate graphics to support the conclusions in the findings - as always in the Jess3 / Solis Joint Venture!

This points to a great SM Compass as well! Truly looking forward to it!

Peace,
Anders

PS. Pointing you also to my contribution I did to the trend report "Urban Lifestyle Report - New Media" from January 2009, "Microblogging? All know what it is, no one knows what it is", www.urbanlifestylereport.com/FreeULRNM.html - where I included a list of Twitter apps and some related blogs as well in the resource list attached to that article. DS.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

@Lori_Laurent_Smith

I disagree. Some of the services related to Twitter in its core services are offered by Twitter themselves. Twitter Search used to be Summize but they bought it. But anyways, it's hard to judge where to draw the line. Is the core in the middle only the microblogging service, with the core functions @replies, DM and following/follower? Or is it the whole brand in itself? What does the "twitter" in the middle represent? If you clarify that it could be a point to have it both in the middle and where twitter themselves offer some of the core services most popular.

Moreover, with my add of also mentioning Twtvite for event management, it is justified to have a leg on its own.

Peace,
Anders
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

Just thought when I tweeted about my feedback I realized that this map should be v 0.9, not 1.0 IMHO - which this convo thread point us to ;). Crowdsourcing research, right? It moves from v 0.9 Beta to 1.0 when adjustments have been made overall, right ;) ?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Jrome says:

Interesting field survey work. As @adamsherk and @michael.silverman stated above - this will be a beastly challenge to keep fresh. It's a snap shot for sure, aging rapidly, but cool nonetheless.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

BTW, related - reminding us of the BW feature with its slideshow;

www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr20 09/tc2009041...

Twitter surely building a social media operative system - a core of a growing ecosystem of apps at large illustrated by the conversation prism, where twitter for now takes a central position - already at stage where the conversation prism covered different cat's of social media services, twitter had a petal of its own. Taking a dedicated map of twitter-only as next step reconfirms Twitter as one of the overall most important apps and tools in the social media landscape. BUT - it's the phenomenon of MICROBLOGGING that is in the core, transcending online conversation and shared discovery through dialogue. Keep focus on that, and not Twitter in itself. It evolves!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

outtathegate says:

Brian, I agree with brunoanconalopes this is great - and even more awesome if it's clickable!
I'd love to see a "arm/strand" that identifies tools and apps for linking twitter to our other social networks(beyond facebook) perhaps entitled social media integration (or omniverse for short) - a girl can dream, can't she?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Lori Laurent Smith says:

@andersabrahamsson

Excellent feedback overall - esp the add of the BW article.

I appreciate your divergent opinion. Let me clarify my point as I saw it more in a brand-centric way. With Twitter in the center, it reminds me of "powered by Intel" -- that these seemingly unrelated apps all have Twitter in common. Or conversely, without Twitter, would there be a need for the apps at all?

What's more, the average user doesn't make the distinction between the various components of the Twitter experience -- search, conversing, DM, finding friends, etc. -- it's all part of Twitter. So if the Twitterverse is indeed 'powered by Twitter', it is tautological to also include Twitter on the arms as well.

With either premise (your point or mine), perhaps what we are both saying is that a definition is in order about what Twitter should represent.

Re: Event management point. I agree if there are more apps to include, it should have its own arm. But if there is only 1 or 2, for the overall look of the 1.0 release, it might make sense to roll them up into a larger category.

Best,

Lori
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

@llaurentsmith

Yes - what is it that we talk about - all things that Twitter is including, or everything that the ecosystem that twitter creates has within? We forward question to @briansolis ...

What is it that we talk about here?

Re: event management - dunno, but marketing in general is not to the point either. Tweetups IRL could be added both with amiando and eventbrite as event managers somewhat related to the twitterverse for organizing tweeple offline get-togethers. But again, it falls back to what we talk about here - where do we draw the line?

Ping.fm, for example, is a generic one-stop-shop social updater, that has twitter included as one outlet. With that logic, both amiando and eventbrite should be included, since a URL-shortened link to an event page certainly shows up regularly in the tweetstreams, whereas the Twtvite is surely more twitter-integrated.

Brian?

Headache ahead...

"not as simple as it seems" ...

Peace,
Anders
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

grijsz says:

Wonderful !! Art meets technology meets Web 2.0 meets real time !
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Pete_L says:

Cool!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

emilydickinsonridesabmx says:

This is really well done and a great experiment. I especially like that it's pretty to look at, as it makes the information easy to digest. There's a lot to think about here, and I imagine as time goes on, tracking the progression, development and intersection of the apps that are created will be an valuable way to keep tabs on the general progress of the Twittersphere. I wonder what it will look like down the road?

Designwise, the apps and services that have graphic logos, as opposed to just type logos, are much easier to read, pick out and identify. There's certainly something for designers to learn from that.

I'd suggest adding Nambu to the 'Communication Management' string, I've recently become a big fan.

Cheers
@EvilPRGuy
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

nwjerseyliz says:

Wow! I'd love an ever bigger version than the large one (super-size it!).

I know there are others that could be added (to bad TwitDir disappeared) but two that come to mind are twtvite.com/ (to organize TweetUps) and twtpoll.com/ (that lets you conduct Twitter polls).
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jessestay says:

Thanks for including SocialToo Jesse and Brian! What about payment services such as Twitpay and tipjoy?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

socialjuliophotos says:

Great work guys. A few suggestions:

1) Where are the photo services? I use Pikchur.com (love it!)
2) For the URL shorteners, awe.sm
3) Event management: twtvite.com
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

annemai says:

This is great -- and so fun. I immediately saw this, though, as a gap analysis too -- of what Twitter doesn't currently offer which prompts users to leave Twitter for a different service or application.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

freespirit says:

Well documented and as annemai says a great gap analysis too.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

bdeter says:

Cool image. If you're open to adding more apps, TweepDiff (http://tweepdiff.com) would fit in relationship management somewhere around DoesFollow and FriendOrFollow.

Thanks!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

prostylus says:

I've only scanned the longer comments, so forgive me if this has been suggested.

It would be interesting if relative placement along the spiral arms reflected the usage or virality of a Twitter tool. For example, if usage of Twellow has grown faster or larger than usage of, say, Headup, then Twellow would be located closer to the center of the Twitterverse.

I recognize this introduces additional research and logistical problems to creating what is already a helpful tool. But it would also elevate the map into an analytical reference that people (particularly developers) continuously referred back to in order to see how their tool stacks up.

Thanks for creating this. It's great stuff.

prostylus
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Jonathan Petersen says:

You may want to add www.Topsy.com in the Search category. @jonpetersen (www.JonathanPetersen.com)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jpotisch says:

Please add TBUZZ! "TBUZZ makes it easy to tweet the page you're visiting or keep track of the buzz around it."

(Disclosure: I work for Arc90, but Google it and you'll see it easily merits a spot in your excellent graphic.)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

annemai says:

building on prostylus' comment: might be nice to know if there is a rationale for the placement on the spiral arms -- or if font size determines/indicates relative strength/popularity of platform.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

evoljen says:

Have you seen spy.appspot.com? That should definitely be included in the search line. Cheers.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jdeeringdavis says:

I'd recommend TweetReach under the trends/analysis category.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

alexisvandam says:

i would add a category 'desktop clients' such as tweetdeck and nambu. great visual sofar
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

susan.beebe says:

Agreed- need a twitter client "tools" arm.

Really looks sharp! :)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

tclayton says:

Hello Brian,

I would like to recommend ChatterBox (chatterboxhq.com) for the communication arm of the Twitterverse. ChatterBox allows you to create team spaces for collaboration around Twitter topics and users of interest with workflow, categorization, tagging, etc. I am one of the co-founders. We just launched at the 140tc last Tuesday. Thanks for the consideration.

Todd
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

chris_foster says:

Very clever, I dont care if every app in the Twitterverse is not on their, I'm now using it as wallpaper....will help me remember why I fire up the PC in the morning and shut it off again in the wee hours...

Nice work and thanks for sharing

Chris Foster
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

cambodia4kidsorg says:

Loving this Brian. Where's the list of tools w/links?
Here's a taxonomy for the analytics and monitoring tools on Twitter
beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/twitter-a nalytics-and...
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

That Snake Guy says:

I use a site called twitual.com to keep track of who's following me, who I'm following, which ones are mutual, ones ones I'm a fan of, and who I idolize.

twitual.com
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

prunelalala says:

This is so cool. Would love to see it a little bigger as some of the details get lost even at original size.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

mollybob says:

LOVE it!!!!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

@b_d_solis - now after some viral frenzy, it really is justified to give feedback on two things echoing in this thread;

1. Selection criteria (virality of apps?)

and

2. Letting different parameters resound and get visualized thru proximity to center and/or size of logo

Also - the relations in between apps are not clarified either.

Could you do one of your dissertation-blog-posts-turned-into-an-ebook where the full methodology gets transparent? It would increase credibility. For me, it is still a very very very strange happening that e. g. TweetDeck or TwitPic are not included. And with probably over 1000 Twitter apps in the whole Twitter-as-Unix ecosystem (ref @stoweboyd post www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/04/dave.html - where even his work of developing the Twitter Syntax echo this sentiment! - www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/05/microsyntax org-microsyn..., or the Social OS (to echo your own points www.briansolis.com/2009/04/social-os-battle-b etween-faceb..., it gets even more crucial to have the "selection criteria" there.

For me, a new arm with "Twitter Clients", embedding alot of other functions from the other arms justifies an arm in itself.

1. TweetDeck
2. Twhirl
3. Seesmic Desktop
4. CoTweet

but there are lots of others. See e. g. @guykawasaki and his posting blogs.openforum.com/2009/04/27/24-ways-to-cha nge-my-life-...

And - to separate it - to get Mobile Client (native app) as well as Mobile Interface (browser-interface-on-steroids) as well, to separate (not to have "mobile application" only).

1. Gravity for Symbian S60 v5 (Nokia 5800 one of the major and actual iPhone killers!)
2. Tweetie
3. TwitterFon

and for interface;

1. dabr.co.uk

ERGO SUM: Twitter Client is an established concept. And the major additional app to actually make microblog management manageable. Because - the original twitter web interface only serves two purposes:

1. To sign up and design your #twittentity using alot of #twitteracy ABC (will blog about this today, feel it is mature to do so...) in order to

2. ...justify and trigger a follow-back when people land at your profile.

Avatar/Authenticity/Bio/Bloglink/Background/ Brand/Character(s)Counts(s): ConnectConversateCo-DiscoverCollaborateCo-cre ateCrowdsourceCommit ...

...for the #twitteracy ABC I will blog away!

For a preview, see Social Media Club Östergötland Tweet Stream for the procedure -twitter.com/smcogtl

Then, beyond that, the "add follow" client takes the stream elsewhere.

Also, the @stoweboyd posting on differences within EMAIL - IM - MICROBLOG serves as background for a lengthier analytical reasoning before we can call this 1.0...

www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/05/from-email- culture-to-s...

There is something BIG here going on! We all know it. But we need to conversate and co-create like this to make things understandable.

And, beyond #disruptivemedia post-event convos juiced by

www.flickr.com/photos/paulamarttila/351601929 9/in/set-721...

at Elverket, Stockholm,

we all know we need to separate the gold from the ore.

Common Nonsense to be replaced by Sense.

And more Original Thinking in both blogosphere and statusphere!

That is what is SIGNIFICANT, yes?

www.briansolis.com/2009/05/significant.html

Peace,
Anders
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Artem Pereverzev says:

Though you name Splitweet in your blog, why didn't you include it in this image?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

ourielohayon says:

Thanks for Including Topify.com in #1 position in the Relationship management (although it is a more than that)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

wmfischer says:

Excellent representation of the growing ecosystem. For your consideration, TwitterJobSearch.com we were the first natural language search engine for Twitter and had over 100k uniques in the first week of launch.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

matoeil says:

missing Yoono too. www.yoono.com/
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

ncornag says:

Really cool graph!
missing iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific and friedcell.net/tweecious/get
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Surgan says:

Looks awesome, I prefer Social Mention over WhosTalkin
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

mathysva says:

Where is Mobypicture #fail :)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

nelulazar says:

Three more Twitter apps that are missing from this pic:
- ceTwit - www.kosertech.com/blog/?page_id=5
- Spaz - funkatron.com/spaz
- Tweetvisor - tweetvisor.com
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

SashaHalima says:

this is fantastic.
thanks for making!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

vicambulist says:

Really looking forward to the Social Compass next. I'm favoriting this one (just like I did for the Conversation Prism). Extremely informative and useful stuff Mr. Solis (and Mr. Thomas).
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

ploerr says:

Great Idea; thx
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Damdam says:

Nice stuff!

What about adding "boarding.fr" in the geolocation + map (disclaimer, I'm the developper of this app!)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

nirvanaheart says:

Great info. Twitter Universe.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

msmillie1 says:

Hyper local app: www.localmo.com 50 cities. Realtime news, reviews and conversation BY twitterers. Ability to Ask a Local, and Post Local.

Great diagram...I'm sure it changes as I type this....
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Zucha says:

How do you represent 10,000 apps? and this is Twitter in it's early development stage... how many apps will there be in 6 mo. 1year from now?
I still love Twitterverse and look forward to seeing the next version.
If you want to know the results of the "What is your favorite Twitter App?"
poll from 140tc... go to dianemichlig.posterous.com/
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

b_d_solis says:

Thank you everyone for your feedback. Please keep it coming. We're working everything that's related to community and communications into the official v1 release. Please keep in mind that this is not the ENTIRE twitterverse, but merely a map of tools and apps for conversation management and measurement.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

andersabrahamsson says:

...and thus my surprise that some micromedia and twitter clients were not there :). I know you're working your ass off, so I am not l**kn it ;). I produce my own sweat heh ;).

Lkkn [»»] FFWD 4 v1.0, dude [reading your myspace of the microblogs notes now]

[convo, con't, w or w/o twtr]

peace out, a.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

ealdent says:

Awesome graphic!

You might like to add TunkRank under Influence and Resonance. It's an implementation (by me) of Daniel Tunkelang's (@dtunkelang) twitter analog to PageRank. It measures how much influence you have by how likely your tweets are to propagate to the wider network of twitterers.

(http://tunkrank.com)
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

HIDDEN IN THE CITY says:

Awesome!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

basseq says:

Twitterific?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

me.at.work says:

>With these top three on my mind (there are more missing like Twtvite that already has become one standard invite/event app for the "event management" leg), I just wonder how the underlying research process was designed.

yep.

Like basseq said, Twitterrific? That was I believe one of the VERY first Twitter clients for iPhone.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jes_kositz says:

Brian - nice meeting you at the 140TC tweetup a couple weeks ago! God to see the Twitterverse in action - have it hanging in my cube and shared with my Burson-Marsteller colleagues. Looking forward to seeing this built out - so many new tools, seems like daily. All best!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

griffithchris says:

Outstanding.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

elenaberu says:

Nice, clean wrap-up.
Still missing tools like Microplaza, tapping twitter as a personal newswire agency (what's relevant in your own timeline), for instance.

Cheers!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

bigMancho says:

Twittpic is missing, and all the picture services for twitter, right?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

theLazyElf says:

There ain't a lot of Event Management sites like Twuffer (http://twuffer.com) and FutureTweets (http://futuretweets.com). Also, there is no Twitterific icon (http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific ).
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

b_d_solis says:

Tweetfeel
Twittad
Twitvid
Twiddeo
twitvid.io/
Twitc
TwitLENS
Tweetube
Camtweet
twitcam
ReTweet
addatweet
Twitition
TinyPetition
TweetPsych
Remove Tipjoy
Twends
Viral Heat
crimson hexagon
filttr
philtro
microplaza (?)
Floxee
Twithive
Tweetizen
Twhanel
Crowdstatus
Twittgroups
Tweetchannel
twibes(?)
twalala (?)
tweetvite.com/

Syndication/Aggregation: Twitterfeed
trendistic.com

Add branch for groups: mashable.com/2009/07/13/more-twitter-groups/
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

inaki8888 says:

Are you planning on creating posters of this great visual? where could we get one?
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

iDiazMarketing says:

Hi Brian! Great job! I don't see SocialOomph or TwitDoc. Twit Doc allows you to share a document from a link in a Tweet. The document is read on a hosted page. www.twitdoc.com/ Or how about TwitterFeed to automatically post a tweet from your blog post, or TwitterRemote to see who is visiting your site or blog and has a Twitter account.
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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