Has the world gone Twitter mad? See for yourself.
A few years ago, if someone promised you access to ‘live twitts all over the world’, it wouldn’t sound that appealing. Most of us have more than enough twits in our immediate environment to deal with, without having to go and seek out those on other continents. But of course that was BT – Before Twitter. So now, in this bastard son of Twitter and GoogleEarth, you can watch tweets appear live at source – wherever in the world that happens to be. Now why you’d want to do this I’m not sure, beyond the voyeuristic pleasure of seeing what total strangers are talking about. But if you’re not immediately fascinated, have a look at 49 other innovative ways in which data can be visualised digitally here. That should keep you going for a while.
