World Languages Mapped by Twitter | The Atlantic - http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global...
Nov 9, 2011
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"Twitter is a linguist's dream come true: it compiles millions of messages in hundreds of languages daily, making the question "Who speaks what languages where?" easy to answer. That is the question taken up by self-described "map geek" Eric Fischer. He has created a map of the world's languages used on Twitter by pulling together data collected by Google Chrome. (...) It’s as if someone took one of those composite satellite maps -- you know, impossibly showing the whole world at night, the darkness broken by hubs and strings of artificial light ... and gave it the power of speech."
- Amira
this is super ! here's the huge 4.2MB map directly for high resolution: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6050... (check the legend carefully else you may think the entire country of Japan tweets in French :-)
- Adriano
oh wow :-)
- Maitani
Interesting.
- Son of Groucho
here's a close-up of Europe, http://i.imgur.com/XfugE... -- centered on the French / German border: language != geography.
- Adriano
great, Adriano :-)
- Maitani
In close-up it looks like another amazing network https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vBVC0d... :-) Thanks Adriano!
- Amira
to clarify how languages are networked, see directed graph http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-icTwf3... -- which sheds light on where the color coding overlap on the tweets map.
- Adriano
Thanks!
- Amira