Posts from The Twitter Blog: visualizations

#NBA fans: Where are your team’s followers?

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

Interactive guide: the midterms’ web of influence on Twitter

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

#NFL fan map: Where are your team’s followers?

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

The global conversation about the #WorldCup

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

Visualizing #Sochi2014

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…

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…

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…

The geography 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.)Read more…