WeFeelFine & Twistori

October 2nd, 2009 | Posted in: art, websites

After posting about TrendsMap earlier, I have bumped into two similar Twitter-based websites. The difference is these two don’t really track trends, they track emotions and feelings.

The first is WeFeelFine. WeFeelFine tracks feelings posted by people on Twitter. After opening the website, it litterally explodes onto the screen in about 1500 pieces, all representing a real emotion posted by real people (see bottom left). The color of each piece represents an emotion: happy positive feelings are bright yellow, sad negative feelings are dark blue, angry feelings are bright red, calm feelings are pale green, etc. Cool thing is that you can also narrow down the area it scans, which allows you to check the emotions in your city for example.

Twistori is based on WeFeelFine, and also checks a range of emotions spoken about on Twitter in real time (see right). Only difference is that Twistori appears in text. Cool extra is the free screensaver they offer for mac users.

It’s really interesting to see what people are doing with Twitter, turning it into projects wandering between technology and art. If you have any more tips like these, let me know!