Check Heatmap of Twitter traffic density in realtime

Twitter has become the world’s most used micro blogging platorm today and the number of people using twitter is phenomenal. To demonstrate the real-time frequency of tweets, Carlo Zapponi and Andreas Markdalen came up with an incredible idea that puts all the tweets on the map, literally !

The above screen shot is the actual visualization of the tweet-frequency from around the world. The red color you see in some areas, increases with the increase in the tweets from that particular region. They call it the heat-map.

I had this website running continuously for 2 hr 17m which produced such a massive result of tweets as evident from the screenshot. When you visit the website yourself, the visualization will begin with a clean slate and will start to fill up gradually as time progresses.

There are 2 visualization options: the satellite view and the map view. You will find some mind boggling statistics at the bottom of the visualization.

Try it yourself :

• Open “A world of tweets”.
• Login to Twitter.
• Tweet anything you like.
• Switch to the “A world of tweets” tab as fast as possible, by using Ctrl+Shift+Tab OR Ctrl+Tab if you are using Google Chrome.
• If you can see instantly that a tweet got processed from your country, then it was you!

Do try it out and let me know through your comments.

Link: World of Tweets