Twitter Visualization showing that social network data, people, flu etc can be tracked from posts

twitter is like a disease. and just as annoying too

it all originated from the U.S!!!!

Fascinating!

it looks like the US is shooting sperm everywhere!!!

lol, i like how the US is almost completely orange and the rest of the world is still dark, except for europe, but they're not a orange as the US

You could build a similar visualization from tweets saying thing like "home sick with swine flu" etc and then track or at least see the areas of growth or transmission over time. The CDC was talking about using Google searches to do a similar thing. I just thought it was interesting you could take tweets and make tangible something out of them.

It was a placeholder title I put in place while uploading overnight. I still haven't figured out what to call it. The guy who made it called it "just landed in" He wanted to see what you could visualize from data and see what it looked like. This is made using tweets that say "just arrived" "just landed in" and so on. It is kind of interesting that you can track a chunk of the population moving from social networking posts.

Testing for a new "Defcon"?

well, i think this data is not very relevant, as Twitter is mostly used in USA only

well i had to read the description twice to understand the video...and your videos are cool too..