Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

jatorre 11 years ago |

Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

danbruc 11 years ago | |

That is probably because Twitter is not really popular in Germany. Looking at the numbers [1] I am still surprised because I would have expected something even lower not knowing a single active Twitter user personally.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-usage-statistics-which-countr...

fizx 11 years ago | | |

If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.

yaph 11 years ago | | |

I'm aware that German translations of English sentences are about 30% longer, but by that logic Twitter should only be popular in countries with logographic or ideographic writing systems like Twitter is in Japan. jatorre's assumption that location is deactivated seems to be an appropriate explanation.

JonoBB 11 years ago |

Love that we see some tweets from some pretty remote places in Africa - Botwana, Zambia and Malawi. Mobile phones have some pretty big penetration there, but internet connection is still not too strong (texting is far bigger).

asdfologist 11 years ago |

Very cool. Does this use an open source map library?

qnk 11 years ago | |

CartoDB[1] allows you to put your data on top of rich base layers. Use Mapbox or any other basemap provider. You can even create maps without a background.

Their Javascript library code is on Github[2], and they encourage people to collaborate. But it doesn't seem to have a license, I couldn't find one in the repo.

[1] http://cartodb.com/

[2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js

javisantana 11 years ago | | |

Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js:

https://github.com/cartodb/torque

zameericle 11 years ago |

would love to see this for the world cup.

ahsanup 11 years ago |

Awesome to see Turkey showing up big on this map, had no clue that the sport was so popular there.

emilsedgh 11 years ago | |

That might be due to the fact that one of the most effective players of Atletico Madrid, Arda Turan [0], is Turkish.

Although he was injured and missed the match.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Turan

askar_yu 11 years ago | | |

might also be due to the fact that Turks are simply - really mad about soccer :)! I lived couple years in Istanbul, and was amazed by how Turks are obsessed with soccer overall.

pedrosorio 11 years ago | | |

It seems odd that a country of that size with a huge love for the sport, misses so many of the final stages of the World Cup / European championship.

lazyant 11 years ago | | |

"Soccernomics" author predicted Turkey becoming much better at soccer competitions for those and other reasons, it hasn't materialized yet though.

petepete 11 years ago | | |

Yeah, but they did finish third at the 2002 World Cup and third at Euro 2008; not bad at all.

pavel_lishin 11 years ago |

I thought this was about League of Legends.