Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contiguous cartograms

Amazing work! I really love seeing the 'explosions' when some news happens in the Netherlands and Switzerland yesterday.<p>One thing I'm curious about though is if you could make it so that you see the time per time zone. I'm assuming the replay is SF time, but it's hard to figure out when exactly those flash events happened in European countries.<p>All in all, great work.

Some comments: Countries are not homogeneous entities, though! Seeing Alaska surge if the east coast is tweeting isn't a as accurate. It would also be nice to have a slider to control time to look at the data from the past.

Not to rain on this but I prefer tweetping.net from last week, although it seems not to be working for me right now. Similar concept, but showed tweets as tiny lights across the world.

It's a pity the size of a country does not represent the absolute volume of tweets emanating from that country. I understand it would distort the map completely, but it would make it so much more interesting to watch. Something like this, but animated in real time: <a href="http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=336" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=336</a>

Check out Tweetpleth if you want more specific tweets <a href="http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/</a> like for the superbowl <a href="http://i.imgur.com/bzmmJno.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/bzmmJno.png</a>

Seeing Indonesia bulge like that confirms my own observations of the previous years. Nice to see that. What I have difficulty in believing is the sheer size of Russia's volume, that seems a bit out of place. Rob? Otherwise, fantastic job!

Sometimes I wonder if Twitter itself has internal tools to measure/visualize things like this. Kudos, the project looks great!

I'm really suprised by Indonesia's bulging size relative to its landmass. It's far larger than other tourist resorts like Thailand.<p>Any ideas?

Very nice work. The trending topics per country would also be informative when shown, but that may be personal.

nice work!<p>one minor suggestion: I couldn't find any reference to the timezone used to collect/display the data, therefore I was unable to have any deeper insight from your awesome visualization. Could you make that information clear on the visualization or the info page? ;)

Great work, Noticed this says beta does that mean there is a lot more to come?

Who needs acid when when you can trip on JS and Twitter? ;)<p>Really nice work!

Really nice, congrats!