Twitter At New Year – Amazing Video Visualiztion
I struggle to understand just how big Twitter is at times. I know Facebook is bigger in terms of users but what bends my brain is seeing videos like the one below and just trying to understand the sheer volume of information that Twitter is processing at the moment. They said they set a new per second record for Tweets with over 6000 coming in per second when the clock chimed midnight in Japan (one of the places where is is most popular). I love what they have done here with this video as it slowly pans over the world with showing different countries in the world lighting up as the tweets explode in volume around midnight. It’s been another big year for Twitter and they are well on their way to their dream of “becoming the pulse of the planet” but 2011 is going to have to be the year that they start making some money because these little videos are nice and all but pushing that amount of data around the world costs a lot of money!
