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Twitter Finds a Blue Ocean with Minsh

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Posted by Christopher Stevenson


I'm a fan of visualization tools. I love the visual thesaurus and think mindmapping is great. Now, believe it or not, there's a visualization tool for Twitter. Minsh has created an underwater world for Twitter fans. Each participant is represented as a fish. As you tweet, your virtual fish swims toward other fish who are discussing the same topic. For example, if I tweet about the Teen Choice Awards, my fish will mosey on over to the other Twitter folk engrossed in conversation about the Jonas Bros., Black-Eyed Peas, and Miley Cyrus. Here, take a look:




As much as I like the visual nature of Minsh, does it enhance Twitter enough to make it matter? Does it have a business purpose, or is it just for fun? What do you think?





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