Social Collider One Year Later

The Social Collider arrived about a year ago. I haven’t heard any updates, particularly regarding the discovery of the Zeitgeist at work, see below.

Social Collider is a Google Chrome-backed experimental application. It’s functional design objective is to reveal cross-connections between conversations on the Twitter platform. The actual intent of the Social Collider experiment is quite a bit more interesting. As data is collected and accrues, the application’s designers hope to uncover multiple layers of person-place-location-event relationships which can be fully comprehended best only when viewed with the additional perspective of chronology.  

This is an excerpt from the site http://socialcollider.net:

One can search for usernames or topics, which are tracked through time and visualized much like the way a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter. Posts that didn’t resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did, however, spin off and horizontally link to users or topics who relate to them, either directly or in terms of their content.

The Social Collider acts as a metaphorical instrument which can be used to make visible how memes get created and how they propagate. Ideally, it might catch the Zeitgeist at work.

Output is on display at a London museum, although primarily as a work of art. I was curious if I could find the Zeitgeist at work, so I tried entering a search query with the promising term “facebook”, selecting the past week for my time interval. Probably unwise for an online application: Windows 7 abended and I was forced to reboot my PC.  

I'm waiting for the results of the collision. And where's the Zeitgeist?