A really useful tool to see who tweets about you. Quickly find relevant people to follow! Use Mentionmap to see Twitter conversations as a network and click any user to explore.
mention map tool by asterisq.com
I like it as its functional, they are in a concept map with elaborate media of hyperlink attached to nodes to delve deeper, mine deeper into the relational tweeters. Not entirely about the visual appearance but more the activity of user and influence.
http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/#user-visualthinkmap
There have been many twitter visualisations, some mentioned here:
http://www.chethstudios.net/2008/08/most-stunning-twitter-visualizations.html
Chris Harrison is well known to data visualiser but is worth a mention of visualising text.
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/visualization.html
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