The one million tweet map

http://onemilliontweetmap.com

by thibaut_barrere • 14 years ago

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lleims2• 14 years ago

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

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

weird gonna check right now! thanks

lleims2• 14 years ago

Working fine now :)

thibaut_barrere• 14 years ago

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

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

could you try again

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

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

Alan01252• 14 years ago

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.

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

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.

weinzierl• 14 years ago

I was also surprised about the activity in Indonesia. Another spot that caught my eye is halfway between Taipei and Japan. Turns out this is Okinawa which has a large US military base. I had expected much more activity in India.

When I zoom in, so that I can see city names, I find the selection of cities that are shown strange. Large cities seem to be missing outside of the US. For example I wasn't shown neither Rio de Janeiro nor Sao Paulo nor Belo Horizonte but Vitoria was there. In southern Germany there is Augsburg, Ingolstadt and Fuerth, but Munich (the only city with over a million inhabitants) is missing.

lince• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

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...

denzil_correa• 14 years ago

This is quite brilliant! Good job.

bodegajed• 14 years ago

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

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

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

conflagration• 14 years ago

Which stream are you using exactly. Are you applying any filters? Afaik the complete firehose has restricted access, or did that change?

Edit: very cool visualization btw. What are you using exactly on the backend for stream processing?

atlbeer• 14 years ago

There's two different HTTP Streaming endpoint for Twitter's stream

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample

Returns a small random sample of all public statuses. The Tweets returned by the default access level are the same, so if two different clients connect to this endpoint, they will see the same Tweets

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/firehose

Returns all public statuses. Few applications require this level of access. Creative use of a combination of other resources and various access levels can satisfy nearly every application use case.

precisioncoder• 14 years ago

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?

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

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!

SeanDav2• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

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

zoop• 14 years ago

That is Null Island

http://www.nullisland.com/

thlt• 14 years ago

This blows my mind

RyanMcGreal2• 14 years ago

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

sgruhier8• 14 years ago

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

RyanMcGreal2• 14 years ago

That would be great! Thanks.

dumbfounder• 14 years ago

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

danso• 14 years ago

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

MagnitudeSw• 14 years ago

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 :)

francov88• 14 years ago

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

olihb• 14 years ago

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)

smokinjoe• 14 years ago

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.

ryspeers• 14 years ago

This is pretty cool. Geolocalized data is huge

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