New The Vi Billion Tweets Maps

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 basis the social network has all the same 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 grapple mapping thus much information on 1 map in addition to then you lot should read his Mapbox weblog post on how he created the map. In item you lot mightiness 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 nearly interesting things that the map reveals is that Twitter can't grip Tweets posted along the Prime meridian. H5N1 blank ring runs vertically downward the map along the meridian, thus it looks similar Twitter's geo-location tools can't grip Tweets amongst a longitude of 0°.