Twitter-Flickr

This map you see above isn't a picture of the earth, seen from space. Europe’s map seen was created by Eric Fischer, by geo-tagging. It’s a map of the locations attached to every tweet and Flickr photo. What results is a remarkable picture of how each service has spread across the globe.

At the very broadest levels, you have a map of the very different ways that Flickr and Twitter have spread across the world. Take a minute to look at this map of America, where Flickr use is shown in orange and Twitter use is shown in blue.It is noticeable that Flickr is everywhere, but Twitter most widely used in the eastern seaboard of the United States. One might have expected the Twitter and Flickr maps to have overlapped quite nicely, but it is not so. Flickr outstrips Twitter by far, especially in Europe, where it is dominant. Only Moscow sticks out as a blue plume of pixels.

In the geotagged maps of cities Tokyo, San Francisco and New York too the Twitter and Flickr tags again fail to overlap inspite of being both really popular.

Geotagged map - Tokyo Geotagged map - San Francisco
Geotagged map - New York

As interesting as these images are, I also found another image which has truth and humour in it which says – ‘From Space, no one care about your tweets’.