A Day in the Life... 12 Hours of NYC Tweets

This map contains 15,521 geotagged tweets, collected using Twitter's Streaming API between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012. Click on a dot to see more info. Use the search boxes below to filter the tweets.

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This map is a social media experiment adapted from A Day in the Life - Baltimore. It contains an estimated 2-4% of all twitter traffic, as only a small handful of tweets are geotagged (these are usually sent from mobile devices)

The data was grabbed using a geographic bounding box, so no other filters are applied. You are seeing public tweets from New Yorkers of many walks of life, throughout the 5 boroughs. Explore, learn, laugh, cry, draw your own conclusions and offer comments/suggestions.

Here's a wordle word cloud created from all of the tweets on this map.

Google Fusion Table Map Development by Chris Whong of Charm City Networks
Twitter Streaming API Script by Dave Troy
Design inspiration from Baltimore Tech Map