Topic: Twitter
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Maps
How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about.
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Charts
Where Americans Tweet Messages of Hate
Clear and distressing pockets of hate speech.
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Maps
Twitter Data Use of the Day: Mapping the Languages of New York City
5 percent of Tweets out of the city are in a language other than English.
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Maps
The Happiest Cities in America, According to 10 Million Tweets
People in Napa, California, sure are satisfied. And the saddest places all swear too much.
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Maps
Watch a Map of Lost Productivity (Otherwise Known as Tweeting)
All the tweets in the world glimmer in this entrancing visualization of real-time tweets.
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'I Pledge to Walk Alone': Activists Demand Safer Cities for Women in India
Pressing for a deeper change in gender attitudes.
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Maps
'Oakland Is the Newark of the West Coast'
And other metrophors.
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Toilet Tuesday
A Startling Number of Americans Use Social Media in the Toilet
Also in this Toilet Tuesday: researchers discover that men experience more "stress" than women when using public bathrooms.
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Making Developing World Cities Better
The governments of virtually all large Latin American cities now use social media to engage with citizens, and smaller cities are quickly following suit.
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Maps
London's Raucous Babble of Languages
Data engineers examined more than 3 million tweets to create this sprawling linguistic cartography.
