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Twitter Code Swarm: A Mesmerizing Video

February 8, 2010 by

One of the things I love about Web 2.0 is all the creativity and collaboration it creates in the high tech community.

Today, I want to share with you a Vimeo video from Ben Sandofsky, a team member of the new Twitter Engineering blog, which visualises Twitter’s commits history in a beautiful and mesmerizing way. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to a software’s code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository.

The video was made using Code Swarm, an open source software tool used to visualize data. In the video, both developers (depicted as their Twitter avatars) and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer. Files are colored according to their purpose, such as whether they are source code or a document. If files or developers are inactive for a while, they fade away.

As Sandofsky notes, “it isn’t exactly scientific, but it still goes to show Twitter’s explosive growth mirrored in engineering.”

Check it out below.



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