Through a recent post [twitter.com] on its company blog, Twitter has been showing off its 'big data' geekness through presenting a geographic visualization of all the relevant retweets and @replies that occurred in the 1 hour period just before and after the Japan earthquake.
On Twitter, we saw a 500% increase in Tweets from Japan as people reached out to friends, family and loved ones in the moments after the March 2011 earthquake. This video shows the volume of @replies traveling into and out of Japan in a one-hour period just before and then after the earthquake. Replies directed to users in Japan are shown in pink; messages directed at others from Japan are shown in yellow.
No comments:
Post a Comment