Twitter traffic peaks over We Are Social

by Tom Harvey in News on 2 July 2010 at 15:31

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Since meeting Lindsey from the Londonist at the recent launch of Eurostar Culture Connect I’ve been keeping up to date with everything happening on the Londonist site and this particular post caught my eye. This ‘New City Landscape’ has been created for the Urban Tick blog by Fabian Neuhaus from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and displays London’s Twitter traffic on a contoured map.

Just like a relief map, the peaks in traffic are displayed with different colours representing different ‘heights’ in traffic. There’s also the nice touch of themed place names such as Peckham Crag and Clerkenwell Ridge.

The We Are Social offices are North of Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly Rock) and just West of Soho Square (Soho Mountain) so we’re smack bang in the middle of the highest peak. Are we the one’s propping up Soho Mountain? I guess it’s possible with the entire company tweeting throughout the day on our own profiles as well as multiple client accounts.

I agree with the suggestion (in the comments of the Urban Tick post) that it would be great to see an interactive live version of this on a Google map like the London Underground Live Tube Map we saw a couple of weeks ago. Then we could really work out who the key contributors are.

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  • http://www.thewayoftheweb.net Dan Thornton

    Cool map – not sure I'd attribute Soho Mountain to you guys alone. There's quite a lot of media companies, marketing companies, web and phone developers etc around here – including a fairly active radio station right across the road ;)

  • http://www.readingroom.com Cathie

    Nice spot, but we cry foul on the attribution! We're pretty busy Twitterers ourselves…
    What about a Reading Room vs We Are Social Tweet-off…?
    *throws down gauntlet*

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