Eclipse

Played a bit with my own twitter client and pimped it to visualize replies. It uses Neo4j for the relationships and Eclipse GEF ZEST for the visualization. New incoming tweets are analyzed for @-replies and integrated into the graph in realtime, but animation is missing and manual layouting is still needed to get some clear structure (see first screenshot).

The Radial layout algorithm does a good job though, but it's not the perfect solution for this problem (left side). Applying first the Radial layout and then the Horizontal Shift layout however shows a nice effect (also added profile images):

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