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

Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by bruceboughton on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @05:48AM (#5175773)

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

Any ideas?

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by yesbabyyes on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:31AM (#5175871)

According to HN user pax, in the Tweetping thread:

Indonesia has 4th biggest population in the world. Also, 6th most active country on Twitter (2010).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5137438

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by bruceboughton on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:46AM (#5175894)

Thanks, I did not realise this.

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by ajhai on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:00AM (#5175802)

Could the tsunami warning be the reason for it? http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/small-tsunami-hits-solomo...

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by Kiro on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:00AM (#5175803)

Are you saying tweets from Asia must be from tourists?

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by bruceboughton on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:04AM (#5175813)

Don't be so ridiculous. Indonesia is massively distorted, even compared to Japan/Singapore. There is clearly an anomoly in this data, either due to a specific event or a data error.

I say this as someone who has just been to Indonesia (Bali) and not see any evidence of Twitter.

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by gavinballard on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:18AM (#5175846)

Indonesia does have the fourth largest population of any nation in the world... could that explain it?

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by oriste on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:11AM (#5175829)

As I said in a previous comment, I've observed this seemingly-out-of-proportion presence of Indonesia on twitter before, since quite a long time. This map confirms those observations. Russia however... ;-)

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by robhawkes on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:08AM (#5175821)

If it's a data error, it's on Twitter's part. We trust the geolocation of their data. However, Indonesia is always bulging. It wouldn't need many global tweets to be large in relation to it's area.

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Re:Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contig... by guelo on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:27AM (#5175860)

I wonder what public evidence of Twitter looks like besides people playing with their phones.

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