22 February 2010 - 14:14Visual Gold Medal: NBC’s Real-Time Olympic Twitter Tracker

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics have a three-hour delay?  Why not check out the Olympic Twitter Tracker on NBC.com?  As an interesting, real-time visual representation of Twitter discussions regarding the Olympic games, the tweets and photo proportions constantly shift depending on the volume of discussion on Twitter.

The Olympic Twitter Tracker, a collaboration between NBC and San Francisco’s Stamen Design, “showcases reactions with an authenticity and passion that can only come straight from the fans and athletes,” writes Twitter’s Chloe Sladden on the Twitter blog.

“So many of us want to experience the full richness of an event, television show, or news story,” Sladden wrote. “Increasingly, this means participating in it, and then seeing that very participation reflected in the event itself.”

Check out the video: