CiVo: Real-Time Visualization of Social Activities by Cartoonized Twitter

Abstract

Abstract. We propose a web system called CiVo (City Voice) that is capable of visualizing public conversations on the Internet. It monitors the posting on the Twitter with respect to a set of specific phrases and displays the correspondent movie clips with cartoons on the time line on CiVo when it finds them. It extends the Twitter to a visual social medium that allows people to share what happens in the world at a glance. The main loop of CiVo runs on PHP while monitoring the Twitter using its API and it returns a specific SWF file to the HTTP clients for each GET request. The SWF file always updates its subSWFs reflecting the phrases found on the Twitter.