Eric Fischer at Mapbox has mapped half-dozen billion geo-tagged Twitter messages. The 6 Billion Tweets Map is a non bad visualization of Twitter's global appeal, showing where Twitter is pop in addition to also where inwards the globe the social network has soundless to attain traction.
Mapping half-dozen billion Tweets is also quite a technical achievement. If you lot are interested inwards how Eric was able to create produce mapping hence much information on 1 map hence you lot should read his Mapbox spider web log post on how he created the map. In item you lot powerfulness live on interested inwards a novel tool which Eric has developed for making vector tiles from large information sets, called Tippecanoe.
For me 1 of the close interesting things that the map reveals is that Twitter can't grip Tweets posted along the Prime meridian. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 blank ring runs vertically downwards the map along the meridian, hence it looks similar Twitter's geo-location tools can't grip Tweets alongside a longitude of 0°.
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