Eric Fischer created this fascinating animation, showing what an earthquake looks like through the lens of Twitter. It’s a tweetquake!
Key: Green dots are tweets about the earthquake, and gray dots are tweets about anything else. The video covers 12 minutes with each frame of the video representing one second in real time.
Fisher says in his Flickr comments that he only included tweets with geotags, so this represents just a fraction of the earthquake-related tweets sent on Tuesday (August 23) when the quake shook up the eastern seaboard.
Let’s hope Fisher fires up his Twitter animation routine for the looming Hurricane Irene, which is sure to light up the map, whether it makes landfall or not.
[Video courtesy Flickr/Eric Fischer, via Boing Boing]
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Key: Green dots are tweets about the earthquake, and gray dots are tweets about anything else. The video covers 12 minutes with each frame of the video representing one second in real time.
Fisher says in his Flickr comments that he only included tweets with geotags, so this represents just a fraction of the earthquake-related tweets sent on Tuesday (August 23) when the quake shook up the eastern seaboard.
Let’s hope Fisher fires up his Twitter animation routine for the looming Hurricane Irene, which is sure to light up the map, whether it makes landfall or not.
[Video courtesy Flickr/Eric Fischer, via Boing Boing]
More About: animation, Earthquake, trending, tweetquake, twitterFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:22:39 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/xHc67YneBME/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/animated-map-twitter-earthquake/#comments
