3D Visualization of the Living, Breathing Twitterverse [Infographic Video]

Imagine watching a story spread across Twitter in real time. How does it look? Lines zipping from one node to another? If your visualization starts on a 2 dimensional piece of paper, you aren’t thinking like the folks in the New York Times R&D Lab. They’ve gone beyond 2D and into 3D in order to fully visualize how stories spread on Twitter.

The visualization of the Twitterverse really looks like a galaxy, complete with orbital rings, brightly colored nodes, and a vast black backdrop.