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The geography of Tweets

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2013/the-geography-of-tweets.html

in 2013, Twitter’s team for Visual Insights created a project that gave every twitter user a virtual brush that they could mark the location of every tweet they made. Twitter was able to track billions of tweets, since 2009, and place them on a map to track tweet geographic patterns.

Above is Europe, Istanbul, and Tokyo. Every place is incredibly unique and varied. This gave Twitter a lot of helpful data surrounding who and where uses their service.

My favorite part of this experience is that it is so simple. But at the same time it is so complex. There are billions of points that have to be mapped and this is no small feat.

Something else I noticed is not on the land but in the sea. there are dots all over the ocean. This means that they were even able to trace off-coast tweets from maritime traffic.