Six degrees of freedom is everywhere around us; it’s how your brain is wired, it’s the law ruling the internet growth, it describes the strucutre of movies and movie stars relationships, it tells how you are connected to your friends. Twitter much like any other seemingly random database (LinkedIn, IMDB, , Disease database, Facebook…) is proving the six degrees behavior. Recently someone took our Graphite control for Silverlight to visualize Twitter relationships and created Twampoline, a Twitter visualizer. It shows so-called cliques and densities, however if you have a busy network of followers you will have difficulties to see through the clusters. The layout algorithm used should be reparametrized in function of the graph scale.

Aside from this beautiful visualization idea, I have never understood the whole Twitter hype and wonder what the next superlative of all this will be?. From websites, to wiki’s, to blogs, to twitter, there has been a continuous decrease of content and informative value. The next big thing will be single words or acronyms summarizing one’s mood and thoughts? Or maybe Google’s Wave will bring  Web 3.0 to the world but I doubt it.