Ever wondered what Twitter communication would look like on a map? Academics from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London have pulled this together to show the city’s Twitter hotspots.
As Anders Johanssonexplains, tweets are shown as red circles, and retweets as yellow points moving in the direction of information – from the original tweets towards the location of the retweets. It’s interesting to see that, aside from a lull around 10am, traffic remains pretty constant throughout the day.
We’re assuming that this is geotagged tweets only, but it’s still rather hypnotic to watch the information speed across the city.
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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