More tweets visualizations

For quite some time now I have been finding visualizations cool. There is a whole list of blogs and web sites dedicated to this rather obscure area of - computing? Web 2.0? It's an Edward Tufte-meets-open source type of thing... and even (SF) author Bruce Sterling is in on the game. And now, even IBM: they too are visualizing tweets (real-time Internet seems to be the in thing now). Still unsure about the usefulness of it all, but it makes for nice mind-map-like charting.

Visualizing tweets live

I'm not sure how useful it is, but it's certainly cool: Twittervision.

Twitter's db maint

...is down for database maintenance. DBCC I guess? A bit funny to see yet another reason why the service is down. I can think of several ways to monetize it, but certainly not with the amount of downtime they are having.