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36 Hours of Traveling Twitterers, Visualized

written by John Chow on May 12th, 2009

Artist Jer Thorp has created a very interesting vido showing a 3D visualization of Twitter travelers traveling the world. The video is a compilation of 36 hours worth of “just landed in…” tweets.

Thorp’s video maps the probable flights of recently-arrived Twitter travelers over a course of 36 hours, assuming the home locations listed in their profiles as the takeoff points, and their tweeted landing location as their destinations.

The pace of the visualization isn’t ultra mind blowing but you have to keep in mind that these mapped out tweets had to fit the exact “just landed in…” syntax that Thorp was looking for, were almost definitely sent from mobile phone and had to have been deemed post worthy in the first place. No doubt, this video is just the tip of the iceberg for globetrotting Twitter users, but it does help to impact how mainstream Twitter is becoming.

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  1. Awesome! It seems like only the U.S. is the only place that is sending the tweets though from the video…there’s no other countries that’s sending anything back…from looking at the video…

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  2. that was really cool! For the amount of work and creativity to actually map something like this..its quite mind blowing!

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  3. I love the video But how accurate is this?

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  4. That is pretty cool. It is like a big fireworks display. It looks like we use twitter more then the other parts of the world. Greg Ellison

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  5. Nice video, it looks like fireworks. Strangly, the U.S. sounds like the only takeoff point where are sent all the tweets. I’m wondering if the information in this video is precise enought…

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  6. I wish he used different colors..the black BG with the black water is a little harsh and hard to see..would’ve been cool if he made the viewer apart of the journey from one tweet to the next..

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  7. Very cool visualization. Interesting how the demographics show that almost everyone on Twitter (at least who’s traveling) is located in the US.

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  8. This wasn’t as cool as I thought it would be, based on the description :\

  9. That’s wicked. Jer has quite the imagination.

  10. That’s cool. US seems to be the only country that uses Twitter :)

  11. That was pretty cool … Twitter is definitely something else! The video is creative – glad there are creative types out there who make our world a bit better each day (and more fun LOL). *SmiLes* Suzanne

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    Mind blowing stuff there, superb. Out of adjectives for this one.

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  13. Yeah, US is ultimately the TwitterLand…I think this video is fairly accurate. I don’t have a Twitter Account…so to all tweeters continue on tweeting!

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  14. That is pretty awesome. It’s amazing with you can do with Twitter’s live data.

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  15. It shows that people in U.S are more technologically priviliged.

  16. Looks cool, but reminded me of some of Call of Duty 4 game cinematics somehow.

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  17. Awesome video. Is there audio? I could not hear anything..

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  18. That one is really looking great, I must say. Simply amazing and mind blowing.

    Oh boy I just love this.

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