Month: April 2011

The mechanic is simple. You’d even watch it and think its too simple. But it works. A nice mash up of twitter, google maps and prizes.

An animation of the Twitter traffic in London during 24 hours. Tweets are shown as red circles, and re-tweets as yellow points moving in the direction of information, i.e. from the original tweets towards the location of the re-tweets. Apparently, the parallel Twitter universe wake up much later than the real world of commuters.