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 @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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