The one million tweet map

[Alan01252]

I have no idea what use this could be to anyone, that being said it was extremely cool to zoom in on my little town and see five tweets going out from people just on the estate I live.

*Edit I've just realised this is a demo show the power of http://v3.maptimize.com/ which is very cool.

[sgruhier]

Correct, I worked hard on that new version and I thought a lot before finding the idea of that demo to show what you can do with maptimize.

I really like that tweet demo. You can find a lot of interesting information, like tweets in your area as you said.

The heatmap is also interesting when you need to analyze huge amount of data like this.

You can also see where twitter is very active. I was surprised to see that Indonesia is very active.

[lince]

Maybe other people does not appreciate your work, but my girlfriend (who study marketing) and me have gained some insight about Twitter users and countries with Internet access [1].

Great work and thank you!

[1] I know this last is arguable: In some countries, Twitter is not the main microblogging service.

[Anon84]

You might want to take a look at this for a view on Twitter Demographics:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/publications/Twitter-IC...

and this for how one might be able to do "serious" predictions using Twitter as a proxy:

http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/39.h...

[olihb]

Very nice and more interesting than the bar charts/graph that other twitter visualization tools give us. It would be really cool (and informative) if you could add a small word cloud when the cursor hovers over a city.

I did a similar non-interactive dataviz a while ago during the big student protests in Quebec this spring. I clustered (using LDA) the tweets talking about the protests and I mapped and identified them.

http://olihb.com/?p=199 (in French, though)

[SeanDav]

There is quite an intense location on west coast of Africa, a bit below Nigeria that appears to be coming from somewhere in the ocean, just to the west of Sao Tome. Google maps is not showing me anything from that location like an island. Any idea why this might be?

Also useful would be some sort of Distance scale/measure.

[chasing]

Looks like 0 degree latitude, 0 degree longitude. Probably tweets with no location info or bad location info.

[denzil_correa]

This is quite brilliant! Good job.

[precisioncoder]

According to what I saw, there were 2 of the last million tweets from canada, Toronto with 5.5 million people had 0 tweets, this seems highly improbable, perhaps Canada has some sort of privacy laws that prevent their data from showing up?

[sgruhier]

This map shows only geolocalized tweets. Usually, tweets are geolocalized when they are sent with a mobile.

Also twitter stream don't send 100% of the tweets, it will be to huge. But statically speaking, it should be enough to have a good picture.

May be there are some restrictions in Canada.

This map give us a lot of information about twitter more than the first fun and wow effect. I like that!

[lleims]

Can't see anything. Tested it with Chrome and Safari on OS X but all I see is http://i.imgur.com/V8FZe.png

[sgruhier]

I fixed it I just removed the IE detection detection. (The demo doesn't support IE 8 and less) Thanks for the report

[thibaut_barrere]

It happened to me a bit earlier - I think I had to force refresh or something.

[sgruhier]

weird gonna check right now! thanks

[sgruhier]

could you try again

[MagnitudeSw]

It would be interesting to aggregate the top similar tweets in these hot areas and show that as a tool tip. No idea how difficult that might be :)

[smokinjoe]

I would love to watch this during some sort of global event, whatever the context. Maybe I'll remember to visit it on Election Day.

[bodegajed]

That's one big data. Do you have firehose access?

[sgruhier]

What do you mean? We just display data from twitter stream. You can use their stream if you want to

[danso]

Very cool. I would suggest revising the scale of the bubbles so that 100 tweets does not have equal representation as 1500 tweets

[francov88]

Really cool visualization - wish it went a step further when you got closer in (trendsmap.com style).

[RyanMcGreal]

Is there a way to permalink to a specific location/magnification?

[sgruhier]

not yet, but good remark. I will use history API to update the URL

[ryspeers]

This is pretty cool. Geolocalized data is huge

[thlt]

This blows my mind

[dumbfounder]

A million tweets isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion tweets.