Posts from The Twitter Blog: visualizations

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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.)Read more…