Twitter followers of world leaders mapped. Size of the circle represent how many followers each account listed.
via www.worldgeoblog.com Invisible Cities maps information from one realm - online social networks - to another: an immersive, three dimensional space. In doing so, the piece creates a parallel experience to the physical urban environment. The interplay between the aggregate and the real-time recreates the kind of dynamics present within the physical world, where the city is both a vessel for and a product of human activity. It is ultimately a parallel city of intersections, discovery, and memory, and a medium for experiencing the physical environment anew. By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city—a city of the mind. It displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate.
via www.visualcomplexity.com
via www.visualcomplexity.com
allfacebook.com’ve compiled some stats on death on Facebook and thought we’d share them with you. While they typically try not to be morbid, there are some interesting findings, especially when comparing the Facebook death rate (extremely low) in comparison to the world death rate (much greater).
via www.allfacebook.com
At JESS3, they've been working through an infographic challenge: trying to accurately depict the size of the key players in the geo / social space.
via blog.jess3.com
More than 1 Million people used our Themeleon tool to design their Twitter Profile in the past 3 months, which allows us to paint a picture of the world connecting colors to locations and profile data. What colourlovers.com noticed first was that a huge majority of people don't wander that far off from Twitter's default light blue colors... and then theye went digging deeper.
They took the colors from 100,000 profiles designed with Themeleon and geolocated them to the designers location. Although it is a little dark in this compressed video... Each location has a spectrum strip of colors... the more colors from a certain area, the taller the strip. (The US is well defined, Europe and East Asia... although you can see some outlines of other countries too.)via static.colourlovers.com
In April 2010, eROI conducted a study of more than 500 marketers. The focus of the survey was two-fold: to determine the impact of mobile marketing in email and web marketing programs; and, identifying the importance and impact of social networks in relation to their email and web marketing efforts. The end result, according to eROI, was a better understanding of how marketers were using email, mobile and social, but also new ideas for better planning for and intergration of the available opportunities. flowtown.com decided to illustrate the most interesting of these findings in the graphic:
via www.flowtown.com
Update: Text and graphics updated to clarify category definitions, timeframe and methodology
via blog.nielsen.com
Prior to Facebook, people had to use detective work and old fashioned stalker technology to find out what their exes and goofball best friend from third grade was up. Those were hard times. By 2010, Facebook has inundated the earth so thoroughly that you’ll never have to rely on a shady private eye to stalk your friends and enemies again. And here are a few fact about the business behind this incredible website.
via www.skitzone.com