Eric Fischer has been using available location data to map Twitter traffic of major cities. The results are a ”beautiful cartographic representations of our information flow,” writes Josh Weinland at Clusterflock.
The image above is of New York and it’s fascinating how much Twitter traffic in a major city resembles a nervous system or the map of an older population center driven by available waterways.
Other metropolitan areas seem to clustter around major roads and transit ways, except for Chicago.
