Twitter's full data stream--their “firehose”--is a very detailed thing. Access to raw tweet upon raw tweet lets brands know what customers think and allows first responders to instantly tabulate hurricane damage. The firehose is also full of metadata which discloses personal, geographic, and technological information on Twitter's tens of millions of users. Gnip, one of the best known Twitter firehose resellers, just turned a raw sample of metadata from 280 million tweets into an amazing example of data visualization.
To read the original article: These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
