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Twitter's API is spawning new tools faster than we can keep up. The latest is Twitterverse, from design company Ideacodes, which provides a "visualization layer" for Twitter messages. Through the tagcloud interface, you can see which words are being used most on Twitter now, 5 hours ago, 10 hours ago or yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the one thing that everyone on Twitter talks about is Twitter itself, but "taxes" also seem to be turning up frequently.
Other cool Twitter tools include Twitter Atlas, Twitterholic, Twapper and TwitThis. Feel free to list others you've found in the comments.
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