Twitter often publishes interesting data visualizations and graphs that display the geography, content, or frequency of tweets across time periods and places.
Below, check out two fascinating graphs: average ratio of tweets per minute over weekdays vs. weekend, and the average ratio of tweets per minute in a day by month.
Don’t miss the chance to hear from the three men who started the 3D printing boom at the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo, September 17-18 in San Jose, California. Chuck Hull, Carl Deckard, and Scott Crump will explore their early technical and commercial challenges, and what it took to make 3D printing a successful business. Learn more.
As part of its Not Normal ad campaign, Mini has partnered with creative agency KKLD to create an LED car that broadcasts tweets, Facebook posts and Vine videos, from random people.
Digital detox vacations have surged in popularity lately, yet 57% of people would not give up social media on vacation even for a 25% discount on their hotel stay.
If you fall into the latter category, you might want to take a look at booking a stay at what is likely the world’s very first Twitter-themed hotel: Sol Wave House in Majorca, one of Spain’s Mediterranean Islands.
Ever heard of an anagram? If you need a refresher, it’s a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another.
Think “dormitory: dirty room”; “Clint Eastwood: Old West action”; and “listen:silent.”
Developer Colin Rothfels noticed the frequency of unintentional anagrammatic tweets on Twitter, and developed a bot called Anagramatron that finds and retweets Twitter anagrams.
Digital DIY is all the rage, evidenced by everything from craft bloggers’ crazy-popular Pinterest boards to the raging rise in interest for CodeAcademy – not to mention the growth in awareness of the potential in 3D printing.
Now Nieman Journalism Lab is enabling you to channel your DIY skills with regard to Twitter. The lab has released OpenFuego, an open-source version of Fuego, its popular Twitter robot. So now you can create your own.
Swedish creative agency Deportivo has harnessed the social-good power of Twitter to create a dress that aggregates tweets about young people’s views.
The dress, which used the hashtag #Twitterklänning to aggregate tweets on topics from gender equality and race issues to overpriced rent and lowering of the legal age for voting, debuted during Sweden’s Almedalen political week.
Isaac Hepworth, who works on “unusual projects” at Twitter (seriously, it’s on his business card), has created a gorgeous data visualization of the relationships among 50,000 verified Twitter users.
If you’ve ever been curious about which Twitter-famous people follow which other Twitter-famous people, this map is for you.
MIT Sloan School of Management assistant professor Tauhid Zaman, Emily Fox at the University of Washington and Eric Bradlow at Wharton have combined Twitter and the future-predicting game Ouija to create “Twouija,” a model that they suggest can predict how popular a tweet will be.
Social audience measurement platform PeekAnalytics has crafted an interactive map that utilizes Twitter data to display the 20 most popular burger chains in the country.
The trends are surprising.
Creating a unique social footprint is as critical these days as maintaining your credit score or keeping your criminal record clean.
A major element of your digital identity is your Twitter handle. And one way some people are setting themselves apart is by creating memorable Twitter usernames.
Here are 15 of my favorite creative Twitter handles.
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