Saturday, July 2, 2011

Viz: Twitter Visualizes the Geographical Spreading of Information

Tweets vs time after the quake

Twitter Visualizes the Geographical Spreading of Information

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Through a recent post [twitter.com] on its company blog, Twitter has been showing off its 'big data' geekness through presenting a geographic visualization of all the relevant retweets and @replies that occurred in the 1 hour period just before and after the Japan earthquake.

Twitter discovered a 500 percent increase in Tweets from Japan as people tried to contact friends, family and loved ones after the earthquake. Visually, it seems information really flows and acts like water.

Watch the movies below, or see also World Cup Twitter Replay.



Sent from my iPhone

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