Maps made of tweets

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This is a lovely image was created by the Visual Insights team at Twitter from billions of geo-tagged tweets posted since 2009. Look closely and you can pick out the roads between cities – even a little bright spot that is Brighton (directly south of London).

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You can see more images on the Twitter Flickr account – and some commentary on this blog post from Miguel Ros.

By Antony Mayfield

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