Viz Social receives its input from a variety of social sources: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and RSS/Atom. To give a unified view and experience, each message is normalized when it enters the system. The picture below shows an explanation of the elements that form a normalized post.

Users can select which attachment(s) is/are displayed per post via the attachment icons at its bottom. Linked YouTube videos are shown via their own icon. Please be aware that YouTube content can be shown in browsers via links, but that the creation of physical copies for broadcast display or rendering is prohibited by YouTube’s user license.

Geo-tagged posts are labelled with a small geo-indicator in their footer. Clicking on it opens a small map that shows from where the post originates.

The length of the message is always shown right at the end of the message text. Please note that:

• The message on screen can be slightly shorter than the real message length because URL compression is used on screen (t.co links for Twitter for example). The count that is shown in blue at the end of each message text, always shows the real message length.

• For embedded structures the message length refers to the element that will be published. This means that for Retweets, the message length is the length of the original, retweeted Tweet, while for Quoted Tweets it is the length of the quoting Tweet.