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.
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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.
Twitter’s data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte wanted to display the billions of tweets ricocheting around the world at any given point in a more inventive way than has been done before.
We’ve seen Twitter maps, interactive 3D Twitter models, and Twitter photo browsers.
But how about a 3D topographical map of billions of tweets, visualized across cities around the entire world?
Data visualization is at an all-time high, as graphic designers and web whizzes compute cooler and cooler ways to display the infinite stream of data flying around the Internet daily.
Find of the week: designer Santiago Ortiz created a data visualization examining how all the people who work at Twitter interact on – well, Twitter.
Check it out, below.
We’re in a fascinating age in which the intersection of data and design, powered by digital media, can manifest both usefully and gorgeously.
One of the coolest uses of data visualization is rendering social networks like Twitter 3D.
Unfortunately, through changes in the Twitter API, many developers have hit a stumbling block in generating creative new uses of Twitter data – but Twitter visualization projects still exist that blow our minds.
Check out 5 of our favorite ways to experience Twitter in 3D, right from your desk chair, below.
Ever wanted a visual representation of what people are posting on Twitter? Well, this is kind of what we have here – it’s certainly visual! And no – it isn’t a graph dissecting the subject matter found in tweets, it’s something much cooler and interesting – pictures.
This app, Twizgrid, grabs Twitter photos and presents them grid-style, similar to how one views pictures in Instagram or Pinterest, allowing you to see what kind of photos people are tweeting.
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The Super Bowl is one of the most prestigious – and expensive – advertising opportunities available to brands. Last year, 46 minutes of ads were shown during the FOX telecast, and some $1.72 billion has been spent by advertisers on the Super Bowl in the past 10 years.
On Sunday, a 30-second ad spot will cost a heady $3.5 million. So, the big question is: what sort of buzz are marketers getting for their money?
It was a once-in-a-lifetime event, and people took to Twitter to share it. This past Friday was 11.11.11, November 11th, 2011. And on 11:11 (both AM and PM) Twitter users excitedly tweeted to each other about the fortuitous date/hour combination.
Twitter created a graphical visualization of the flow of tweets that mentioned “11:11″ throughout the day on 11.11.11 in a 24 second video clip that you can watch below.
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A number of websites have offered various ways to crunch your Twitter profile data into an attractive and easily-digestible visualization (a recent example being Visual.ly, who we featured back in July), and now Vizify is the latest to get in on the action with their Twitter-analyzing application, Tweetsheet.
The Twitter-verse is a complicated web of friends, followers, re-tweets and hashtags. It can be a headache to follow what’s really happening with your own tweets, let alone the whole Twitter eco-system.
We took a look around the web for some interesting ways to visualize Twitter – in graphs, charts, or more abstract images. Here are three of the coolest Twitter visualization tools to give you a break from all that 140-character-sized text.
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