Tweet Visualization in World-Map Heatmap Form

[trotsky]

Wow, that is awesome. What is up with Rio being a third (or more) of the overall network volume?

EDIT: I guess since it's the percentage of geolocated tweets the most likely answer is that the most popular Portuguese client geolocates by default.

[dpritchett]

There's a been a press release for a study on erectile dysfunction in Brazilian men and now it's a trending topic.

http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default.jsp?uf=1...

Based on the portuguese trending topics, it looks like Ronaldinho isn't going to be playing soccer in Teofilo Ottoni.

Edit: It's extraordinarily difficult to find the signal of the original story amongst the noise of Portuguese tweets saying "lol, erectile dysfunction is a trending topic!"

Perhaps someone with a better handle on tweet mining can get to the bottom of this.

[dotcoma]

Rio, 10 million people, and Sao Paulo, 1 hour by plane, 20 million people.

[prewett]

When I checked Rio was number one by a large margin, which Indonesia being second. It'd be nice I could click on it and see some of the tweets so I could get some idea why.

[olalonde]

> A world of tweets is compatible with every browser supporting HTML5 and the <canvas> tag, and degrades gracefully to Flash on older browsers.

Who would have thought...

[alexophile]

When it does, it gives this message: "YOUR BROWSER DOES NOT SUPPORT HTML5. GRACEFULLY DEGRADING TO FLASH. PLS DON'T TELL STEVE."

In other news, I really wish my employer would let me upgrade my browser...

[CytokineStorm]

It would be great to see a heatmap of all the tweets that they've collected since November 1st. The real-time thing is pretty cool, but I think it would be interesting to see the most active locations from the last few months on a higher resolution heatmap.

Or even better, let the user select between fixed time periods (all time, one month, one week, etc.).

[jsmcgd]

I like these geographical data visualizations but I'm always slightly disappointed when the data turns out to be 90% what you would expect. I always think it might be more interesting to show some slightly more nuanced data if possible, like instead of showing volume of stuff, show the rate of growth of stuff or where stuff has appeared for the first time.

[wladimir]

Very cool. I don't use twitter myself but I really like the visualization idea.

The GUI doesn't seem to work here, though, I cannot change any of the radio buttons such as "Satellite" instead of "Map". It simply doesn't respond to mouse clicks (Firefox 3.6.13 Linux).

[dknight]

Same configuration here; but buttons work fine for me.

[dangrover]

I would like to see a visualization like this, but corrected for population density. What cities tweet disproportionately?

[dknight]

Even when I open only this site in my browser, within a while it uses >90% cpu time and soon rises to 100%.

[100k]

Very cool. Total "wish I'd thought of that" idea with excellent design.

[uiui]

What's the point of staring at the browser for 2 minutes to get the info you are looking for? If you are retired, that is another story ...

[trotsky]

filter_term == "earthquake" || "tsunami" || "tornado"

[mdiamond]

This is awesome. You know what would make this super-awesome? Being able to filter by keyword. Though they're probably already filtering down the tweets or else the map would be a complete mess.