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Visualization: Jer Thorp's "Just Landed"
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... Jer Thorp slurped up mentions of "Just landed in" or "Just arrived in" from Twitter, mapped the coordinates, and made an animated map in Processing that shows people popping around the world. The test render above shows the data pulled over the course of 4 hours. If that's actually all the returned queries from the entirety of Twitter, I'm surprised there aren't more. [via ...

36 Hours of Traveling Twitterers, Visualized [Visualizations]
Gizmodo — ... Artist Jer Thorp has harnessed the internet's oversharing tendencies for good, compiling 36 hours worth of " ...