Twitter Conversations Map #1

A visualization showing conversations of about 1500 users from microblogging service Twitter. The arcs link the locations of users who talk to each other.

The geocoding was done filtering location info from the users profile pages and looking it up with www.geonames.org.

Done with www.processing.org.

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Andreas Klinger says:

very impressive!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Phreak 2.0 says:

great!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Walter Rafelsberger says:

thanks! more is in the pipeline ;-)

btw this is a screenshot of a real-time-environment ;-)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

mkoser says:

very cool! - hold on... someone's twittering from the South Pole???
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Walter Rafelsberger says:

@mkoser
hehe you're right there are for sure some inaccurate locations because of strange entries in user profiles. i think the one arc to west africa is incorrect too, it's a known problem with automatically parsing locations. i didn't do any filtering yet, but I will look for a "stop-list" of known problematic locations/strings.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

sugarmelon.com says:

hm. those are things i like very much. would be interested in more of it.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

ksauerffm says:

Sehr cool!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

nikrowell says:

Awesome!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

carbonoutreach [deleted] says:

This is such a great pic.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

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