Big On Broadway: Map Of Twitter's NYC Traffic

Map by Eric Fischer

Eric Fischer created a map showing Twitter traffic based on location, noting, "Broadway as the spine is not difficult to believe. Data from the Twitter streaming API (10000 points, 30000 vectors). Base map from OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA." Basically, it follows the city's biggest—and apparently most connected—corridors.

In 2010, NYC's Twitter traffic was transformed into a fun contour map.

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By Jen Chung in News on January 23, 2012 11:25 AM

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FU Boy

Looks like a lot of twit-ing in transit. Hopefully they're not driving.

MEDICNYC

So more densely populated areas, especially in Manhattan, have higher internet usage and Twitter participants. How utterly fascinating and shocking.

brooklyndan

It's graphically grabby, but topographically unsurprising.

From Manhattan, there are arteries running over the Manhattan, Williamsburg, and 59th Street bridges, where there's mobile bandwidth. (Underground, not so much.) In central Brooklyn, the traces pretty much follow the (elevated) F, the (trench and elevated) B/Q, and the 2/5 (which is underground, so ??) In northern Brooklyn, the traces track the L. And in Queens, they track Northern Boulevard, the Grand Central, and the LIE.