Want to know where all the world's tweets are coming from? Right this way...
Eric Fisher of Mapbox has put together a hugely impressive interactive map that shows just how many tweets have been sent around the world and exactly where they come from.
The map shows a total of 6,341,973,478 tweets that were geotagged in the last three and a half years from all over the world, which breaks down to about 10 million public tweets a day, or around 120 per second. That's a lot of data to crunch, and it's all here in a handy format for you to have a look at. You can zoom in and out and go in to great detail, or simply get an idea of where in the world tweeting is going on.
Speaking to i100, Fisher said that the map was as accurate as possible, even though there are blank spaces on some roads or streets that appear to be glitches. He argues that, for example in the case of Chados Road in London (which is completely blank) it's not a problem with the data or the visualisation, but rather "the same stripe also shows up in the unfiltered tweets, so it must be Twitter that is filtering them out". Mysterious...
We zoomed in to see if we could find our house, and we're pretty much the only ones repping the tweet game hard on our road. Social media for life, yo.
Via i100
