Policy by the Numbers: Visualization: A Week's Worth of Twitter Employee Tweets

Visualization: A Week's Worth of Twitter Employee Tweets

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Via The Verge: There's a huge amount of public data available on Twitter, and a new data-visualization tool really hammers that home — developer Santiago Ortiz has mapped out the relationships between every Twitter employee based on their tweets to each other. Ortiz used Twitter's API to pull all the tweets authored by Twitter employees for a one-week period, and then filtered those tweets by only those made between employees. The visualization Ortiz created is almost overwhelming in its depth of detail: hovering over a user's avatar shows all the tweet-connections made by that person during the week, and clicking the avatar zooms in on that person and his or her contacts. Even more dramatically, you can click a "play" button to see a fast-forwarded view of every connection as it happened throughout the entire week — you can see small one-on-one coversations quickly branch to include more and more people. You can even click one user and drag to another to see a stream of any conversations the two individuals had.All of the information the developer used is publicly available, showing the potential for mapping networks and public conversations by using Twitter's API. Say goodbye to at least 10 minutes of your day and click the image below to play with the visualization.

Policy by the Numbers

Visualization: A Week's Worth of Twitter Employee Tweets

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