La visualizzazione dei tweet o un corto sperimentale

Io lo trovo fantastico… psichedelico… perturbante!

A data visualisation showing how the story of the Vauxhall helicopter crash played out on Twitter.
Each node represents a user who tweeted. Edges are connections, such as RT’s. The size of node represents the influence of the user. Users emerge from the centre of the image, and move to the edge. As a users Tweet is retweeted, they are pulled back into the centre of the image.
You can observe how at first the story is reported by passers-by. However the importance of trusted news sources quickly overtakes the witness Tweets.
Witness Tweets are still heavily retweeted even alongside Sky News and BBC.
Created from publicly accessible Tweets accessed via Datasift by @TwitterAdsUK.