For those who don’t know, Twitter is a microblogging client used by about a million people around the world. Some people are addicted to it, while others label it as dumb. Each “tweet” is limited to 140 characters to insure that each update is short and to the point. The popularity of Twitter and its extensive API make it the subject of many web 2.0 mashups and experiments.

Twistori is a Twitter visualization experiment. It scans the twitter stream, organizes it into categories based on emotion, and presents them as a never ending river of thought.

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Watching the stream of tweets is actually very addicting. It would make a great wallpaper. Twistori is described as

The first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs.

Twistori is a genius implementation of Twitters API. Unlike other visualizations, Twistori doesn’t just present twitter data, but it organizes it by content too. If this is the first step in an experiment, I can’t wait to see the second.