The Topography Of Tweets [INTERACTIVE MODEL]
Twitter’s data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte wanted to display the billions of tweets ricocheting around the world at any given point in a more inventive way than has been done before.
We’ve seen Twitter maps, interactive 3D Twitter models, and Twitter photo browsers.
But how about a 3D topographical map of billions of tweets, visualized across cities around the entire world?
Belmonte took every geotagged tweet ever recorded to create a virtual landscape of tweets.
The mountain ranges below are not natural geography, but the virtual topography of Twitter – with the peaks representing where the most tweets are sent from.
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