Jer Thorp stumbled upon an interesting visualization of one small portion of twitter, using user’s specified Home Locations & tweets matching “Just Landed in X”, he could plot the travels of twitter users all around the globe.
This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
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