“Bodge realized (god knows how) that “nearly every second, a user on Twitter tweets about what time it is.” That means that every single minute of the day, Twitter can be datamined for tweets containing the correct current time—and that’s exactly what Chirp Clock does. But its display, or “surface” in Berg-speak, is what makes it interesting. By harnessing live social media activity to the purpose of timekeeping, the app becomes much more than just a clock. It becomes an ambient window onto the hundreds of tiny micro-stories unfolding this very minute, all across the world.” (via Ingenious Chirp Clock Uses Tweets And Crowd Intelligence To Mark Time | Co.Design: business innovation design)
