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Twitter and synchrony

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

MLB's #ASG: All the stars, all the stats

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Baseball is all about statistics: ERA, OPS, BABIP. So how about some Twitter stats from last night’s All Star Game? In total, there were over 1 million Tweets about the game, with a peak of 23,000 Tweets per minute for Mariano Rivera’s relief appearance.Read more…

The topography of Tweets

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.Read more…