Green is physical movement from place to place; purple is @replies from someone in one location to someone in another; combining to white where there is both.
Reported trips to Null Island excluded; all other geotags trusted. Endpoints of trips are real data; routes in between are fabricated. Brightness is logarithmic.
Data from the Twitter streaming API through September 1, 2011. Continent shapes from Natural Earth.
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chaziramibu 17 months ago | reply
I'm Indonesian and live in java, Indonesian people are love to talk and chat whenever and wherever because we always want to keep in touch with others, it's our culture to maintain connection between persons, so the social media is like matches threw into a sea of gasoline, it fires up the habits and made us love to talk more and more than before...
P.S : sorry for the bad english...:)
Jaf's Flickr 17 months ago | reply
Hi Eric, what an awesome map you have here.
As for Indonesia, it must be the population: approximately 270 million this year. That along with variety of ridiculously cheap flat access to mobile data I guess is the answer. Infact I did a "tweet interview" for an article a few days ago, and one of my sources said that she preferred tweeting to sms. Why? Cause each sms cost money :D There you go :p I'm Indonesian btw :D
farissshafee II 17 months ago | reply
brilliant
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Seen in the interestingness archives. (?)
Eric Fischer 17 months ago | reply
Thanks for the background on how and why Twitter is used so much in Indonesia!