Thought Bubbles: a conceptual prototype for a Twitter based recommender system for research 2.0
The concept of so called Thought Bubbles deals with the problem of finding appropriate new connections within Social Networks, especially Twitter. As a byproduct of exploring new users, Tweets are classified and rated and are used to generate a kind of news feed, which will extend the personal Twitter feed. Each user has several interests that can be classified by first evaluating their Tweets and then by evaluating user related and already existing contacts. By categorizing a user and related connections, one can be placed in an imaginary category specific subset of users, called Thought Bubbles. Following the trace of people who are also active within the same specific Thought Bubble, should reveal interesting and helpful connections between similar minded users.