Mapping tweets: locational,Data pruned from Twitter

Twitter cuts off geospatial data access for police intelligence centers http://flip.it/aUzACt

Cool Geo-Video: Sports Timeline linked to Twitter Activity

Here is another cool geo-video built on the CartoDB platform.  Nice timeline relating the game scores to twitter reaction.

Cool Geo-Video: "Sunrise" around the world by Twitter

Recently made the move from Esri to Deloitte Geospatial.  While I will always be an advocate of the Esri platform, the "brand independence" has given me the opportunity to broaden the consideration of WebGIS tools to be truly "platform agnostic". Recently we've been tooling around with CartoDB - here are some of my favorite samples - blending a live twitter feed with WebGIS.

NASA EOSDIS GIBS, CartoDB attribution pause 21:52 Sunrise around the world - Geotagged Tweets mentioning 'sunrise' in different languages, April 6, 2014, GMT Embed this map

Geography & Social Media: FourSquare recap from Amsterdam

Neat update from Four Square - I particularly like the PacMahattan project as the pre-A.I. impetus for "gaming-based" incentives with the intermingling of social media and geography.

Cool Geo-Pic: A Global Good Mornin' to Ya

This cool Geo-Pic shows "Good Morning" tweets.

Full credits to Jer Thorp : blog.blprnt.com GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.




Per the site: " GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying 'good morning' in English as well as several other languages.The tweets appear as blocks and are colour-coded. Green tweets are early in the morning, orange tweets are at about 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black tweets are 'out-of-time' messages (sent at times that aren't in the morning at that location)....."

GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.

Mapping Twitter - Present & Future

As far as Twitter is concerned, I still consider myself a "well-informed Luddite". With that said, from those that know, below is a visual mapping juxtaposing Twitter's presence reach to it's branching future. Full links describe both.



Per Flowing Data, " ... The below flow chart from Steve Rubel shows Twitter's possible future while the above from Brian Solis and Jess3 shows all the spawns of Twitter data.,...".

I've just "halved" the images for easy display. Welcome to the TwitterVerse? Perhaps .....