People love visualizing internet usage, mostly because it's very pretty. But photographer and NYT tech editor Eric Fischer's outdone himself with perhaps the prettiest one of all, mesmerizingly mapping Flickr and Twitter use across the dark surface of the Earth.
The data from North America is pretty surprising! Twitter use is heaviest on in the Southeast and Eastern Seaboard, with much less action on the typically tech-heavy west coast. The central states are, unsurprisingly, something of a dead zone.
The rest of the world is mostly dark—according to this visualization, Twitter and Flickr are almost entirely an activity of the Western World. Oh, and New Zealand. Which loves Flickr.
12 comments:
yeah well it do looks pretty, i wonder if you can see it from outter sspace~!?
Thats interesting. The mid section looks pretty dead, i wonder why is that.
That is a whoooole lotta twitts.
So. Many. TWEETS!!
makes sense. Only us Americans would love this crap.
It's crazy what people can do.
It's amazing, many people use Twitter!
I think I need to go live in one of those dark areas
I would say I'm with Shaw, but I'm in England lol. Still, it looks gorgeous, I've never actually seen anything like that. It almost makes me want to stop wishing Twitter would go away. Almost, but not quite.
It's like seeing city lights from outer space, but with internet usage. They should do more like this!
you can see all the big nodes on the interet :)
So it seems that Twitter hasn't quite made it to the midwest yet. What a shame, they're missing out!
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