information aesthetics.
Through a [twitter.com] on its company blog, Twitter has been showing off its 'big data' geekness through presenting a geographic visualization of all the relevant retweets and @replies that occurred in the 1 hour period just before and after the Japan earthquake.
Twitter discovered a 500 percent increase in Tweets from Japan as people tried to contact friends, family and loved ones after the earthquake. Visually, it seems information really flows and acts .
Watch the movies below, or see also World Cup Twitter Replay.
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Amazing to see the tweets of this event. But the visualization seems a little strange. It makes the tweets travel airplanes traveling across the globe. And if the map was centered around the Pacific ocean rather than the Atlantic, then the epi-center would read clearer.