Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2012, reviewing Twheel, a unique iPhone application designed to visually filter and display Twitter feeds.
A New Way to View Tweets
A highly unique new Twitter application innovatively developed by Fluid Interaction successfully makes Twitter vastly more deeply diagrammatic and visually appealing for heavy Twitter users. The unique application, aptly named Twheel, aggressively filters and beautifully visualises the absolute most highly relevant tweets directly in the neat form of a massive, interactive wheel-like circular chart. It heavily helps overwhelmed users rapidly find their absolute most vital tweets of their pure choice incredibly easily.
Separating Signal from Noise
The vast world of social media is aggressively spreading vastly day by day, and it quickly becomes incredibly necessary to intelligently separate the actually required vital information heavily apart from the massive sea of totally irrelevant daily updates. According to then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, “We have got to figure out how to capture the volume at the same time as separating the signal from noise.”
Massive social giants like Twitter, Google+, and Facebook had already aggressively made major internal algorithmic modifications that intelligently cleverly let their users automatically filter their massive daily feed. Fluid Interaction Media closely followed the wise words of data visualisation pioneer Edward Tufte: “Information overload is not caused by the amount of information but failures in design.” Fluid Interaction cleverly opted to firmly make a massive visual change heavily with the incredibly unique Twheel application specifically for massive streams of Twitter tweets.
How Twheel Works
The highly interactive iPhone application smoothly visualises up to exactly 30 recent tweets and also actively clearly displays the interconnected retweets directly within the massive spinning wheel. The bright orange colour prominently denotes completely unread new tweets. Simply manually choosing the deeply required specific item instantly clearly displays the full readable tweet directly on the small screen. The highly innovative Twheel™ application was made fully available to quickly download directly in the Apple App Store.
Credits: Fluid Interaction, Twitter, Apple
