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Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jul 25, 2009

Summary

At its peak, a search for "Iran" on Twitter generated over 100,000 tweets per day and over 8,000 tweets per hour. The plot just below shows the growth in volume of information in the number of tweets per hour.

How does an Internet junkie, news organization, or political operative monitor rapidly evolving real-time events, from the crucial details to the bigger picture? More importantly, how can a data stream be turned into real-time action, reaching the people who need it, when they need it, and in a form they can easily digest?

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The proliferation of real-time search engines and trend monitors (sometimes referred to as "listening platforms") has thus far done little to address problems of this scale and importance. This is because they fail to provide context -- i.e. show how a new piece of information is relevant to what we've seen before and where it fits in the space of possibilities and relationships.

For instance, if you are a programming director at CNN trying to discriminate between significant news and Internet memes, simply knowing that #i

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