Analog Tweet-O-Meter shows city-specific Twitter activity the old fashioned way

Never mind keeping track of how many gold medals Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Monaco rack up during the Winter Olympics; the real nerds are watching to see exactly how many tweets are being pushed out per minute from a smattering of cities around the world. CASA's Tweet-O-Meter has been running on a webpage for awhile now, but frankly, the novelty tends to wear quickly. These, however, are far more tempting to the retinas. What you're looking at above are a few analog Tweet-O-Meters, which do exactly what you think they do: showcase the amount of tweets that are leaving New York, London and Paris at any given time by moving a needle within a conventional gauge. Head on past the break for a video, and be sure to express your reaction on your favorite up-and-coming social networking site.

[Thanks, Dr. Andrew]

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[JustThatNerdyGuy Posted Feb 16th 2010 4:19AM]

Thats just plain useless...

[rhezaganteng Posted Feb 16th 2010 4:25AM]

OMG, I'm still thingking about Windows Phone 7.
anyone interested getting my iphone 3gs, and iPad ?
its so old now :(

[dansus Posted Feb 16th 2010 4:37AM]

wtf? stupidest thing 'evar.

[Smithee Posted Feb 16th 2010 4:51AM]

There is science behind it so perhaps its not quite the 'stupidest thing ever' its part of a new free tool set that we are launching soon that allows us to mine social networking site to gather data. That data has quite profound implications on how we understand our cities and social spaces.

The meters, well they look neat in the office :)

[Bash23 Posted Feb 16th 2010 5:42AM]

That is awsome.

[S2333 Posted Feb 16th 2010 7:00AM]

That is pretty cool. Sort of like a pulse on people.

[AltairDusk Posted Feb 16th 2010 7:23AM]

Crapgadget

[Dinochicken Posted Feb 16th 2010 8:10AM]

+9000 geek cred to you good sir, that was truly beautiful, and inspired.