What happens when you plot billions of geotagged Tweets on a map? You can see the arteries of the world. Here's Europe:
According to creator Miguel Rios (Engineering Manager, Data Visualization at Twitter), the dots on this chart represent every geotagged Tweet since 2009. The color represents number of tweets in the region, and the intensity shows where people move and tweet the most. (Note the maritime shipping lanes!) The chart was created using 20 lines of R code using the ggmap package.
Take a look at some other cities on Twitter's Flickr page, or read more about how this stunning map was created at the link below.
Official Twitter Blog: Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets
Is the code available somewhere?
Posted by: Zach Mayer | May 31, 2013 at 13:04
@Zach, not that I know of -- I'll check with Miguel Rios
Posted by: David Smith | June 03, 2013 at 10:34
Any news if the code is already available?
I checked and as of today just the 20-line mention but no code at all.
Posted by: Martin | June 22, 2013 at 04:54