
As it was previously announced from to the , the [mtv.com] is a real-time graph of Twitter activity that highlights the social news surrounding the Video Music awards by aggregating the most popular terms being .
Developed by and social media monitoring company , circular bubbles with celebrity head shots grow and shrink in real time according to the number of according tweets, while an interactive timeline at the bottom of the screen provides a way to browse back and forth through different points in time.
Seems the short was good to overshadow the whole event, Twitter wise?
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Interesting to see what trending terms MTV chose to omit from their broadcast: http://content.stamen.com/files/mtv_screenshots/kanye_west_is_an_asshole_sm.jpg
Still, all it does is prove that Kanye knows what countless trolls across the internet already know: "Trolling is a art." When are people going to realize Kanye is an a**hole because it gets people to talk about him?
For more on Stamen's great work check out their blog post on the VMAs: http://content.stamen.com/kanye_west_is_an_a__hole_and_other_twitter_moments