Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter

This collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory debuted the first-ever analysis of the geography of social media, exploring for the first time the "where" of Twitter. The study was covered throughtout the world, including the print edition of the New York Times to the BBC, The Telegraph, Foreign Policy, Irish Independent, Smithsonian Magazine, AFP, ANI, Times of India, Wired, Harvard's Internet Monitor blog, Twitter's blog, and hundreds of other outlets.

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