Map of the frequency with which people in different places @reply to each other on Twitter.
The brightness of each arc is proportional to the log of the number of tweets from one place addressing someone in another place, with locations chunked to 20-mile squares. Communication is shown moving clockwise from the person sending the tweet to the person being addressed.
Data from Twitter streaming API, May 15 through October 10, 2011. World map outline from Natural Earth.
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♫ Lion ♫ 20 months ago | reply
Very interesting!
monaco obbediente 20 months ago | reply
which is the size of the network?
Eric Fischer 20 months ago | reply
I'm not sure I understand the question, but this shows a total of 13,599,092 links.
Phil_Hale 20 months ago | reply
I'm not sure I understand.. any of this, but I love the result !
inger h 20 months ago | reply
Not only interesting, but damn beautiful as well!
Eric Fischer 20 months ago | reply
Thanks!
bior 20 months ago | reply
Have you tried generating this map not with smaller chunks, but with larger? Say, 200 mile blocks?
Eric Fischer 20 months ago | reply
I haven't yet, but I ought to.
p0tpie 20 months ago | reply
Beautiful view and colors my friend! Very creative!!
-pieman
smrisk 20 months ago | reply
What wondrous developing- an excellent sight!
Dr. Ilia 20 months ago | reply
masterful capture
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SolitudeWays. 20 months ago | reply
Wonderful.
monaco obbediente 19 months ago | reply
thanks Eric, that was my question. The network is huge!
I would try to remove some links, maybe putting different thresholds on the weights. I wonder if some new patterns would emerge... anyway, great job!
Blau Zahl 19 months ago | reply
What do you get if you run it with a time cutoff ending before celebrities all joined twitters? i.e. only normal people, albeit weighted towards techies
Eric Fischer 19 months ago | reply
I wish I knew... You can't really look into the past on Twitter -- you only have access to what happened while you were watching the streaming API.
Bitchu 19 months ago | reply
Wow!! Amazing!!!
Congrats
wangjianshe 17 months ago | reply
真漂亮
Michelle Weitzel 14 months ago | reply
This is really fantastic!! You have found a way to visually represent the movement of ideas. I want to know more! How did you get access to the data to begin with?
Eric Fischer 14 months ago | reply
It's from the Twitter streaming API, dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api
Michelle Weitzel 13 months ago | reply
Thank you! I'll check it out.