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Jul 9, 2011

Twitter and Flickr Light Up the Planet

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:

Daily Car Reviews said...

yeah well it do looks pretty, i wonder if you can see it from outter sspace~!?

GMSoccerPicks said...

Thats interesting. The mid section looks pretty dead, i wonder why is that.

ThirtySeven said...

That is a whoooole lotta twitts.

Zombie said...

So. Many. TWEETS!!

MRanthrope said...

makes sense. Only us Americans would love this crap.

Unknown said...

It's crazy what people can do.

Sam Meyotl said...

It's amazing, many people use Twitter!

Shaw said...

I think I need to go live in one of those dark areas

Mark said...

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.

FabFawk said...

It's like seeing city lights from outer space, but with internet usage. They should do more like this!

Electric Addict said...

you can see all the big nodes on the interet :)

braumaman said...

So it seems that Twitter hasn't quite made it to the midwest yet. What a shame, they're missing out!