Posts from The Twitter Blog: Twitter data

Visualizing #Sochi2014

Friday, February 7, 2014 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data editor [21:26 UTC]

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

This year on Twitter

Thursday, December 12, 2013 | By Gabriel Stricker (@gabrielstricker), VP, Marketing & Communications [05:00 UTC]

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Twitter is the real-time soundtrack to the biggest global moments and events as they unfold in the world, and 2013 was no exception. Whether it was the Super Bowl blackout or the German election,Read more…

Twitter and synchrony

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | By Miguel Ríos (@miguelrios), Visual Insights Manager [18:45 UTC]

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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

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | By Elaine Filadelfo (@urchkin), Communications [06:25 UTC]

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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

Friday, June 28, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data editor [16:01 UTC]

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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…