Where you’ll find Twitter followers for every NBA basketball team.

Who are the best-connected politicians on Twitter? Find out with our new interactive guide.

This map shows you where you’ll find Twitter followers for every NFL team.

Preparing for the final Sunday showdown, and what we’ve learned so far.

As the #Sochi games kicks off, we have visualized the key Twitter data around the big moments. See how the world Tweets the Winter Olympics

Events cause people to synchronize and act together. Here we look at three different causes of synchrony around the world: natural, routine and cultural.

Sometimes a map is not enough. What if instead of just showing roads and boundaries, it was a 3D model you could manipulate and explore?

That is exactly what our data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte (@philogb) did with every geotagged tweet ever recorded, producing this incredible visualization of billions of Tweets.

Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets.

Those of us on the Visual Insights team are obsessed with the patterns that emerge from aggregated Tweets over time. A continuing curiosity is about the geographical shapes that surface in geotagged Tweets. The images we’re sharing here use all of the geo-tagged Tweets since 2009 — billions of them. (Every dot is a Tweet, and the color is the Tweet count.)