#nyc #architecture #lobby (at New York Times Building)
10th May 2013
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The final piece of the spire at One World Trade Center is lifted into place in New York, May 10, 2013. The tower now rises to a symbolic 1776 feet, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He (UNITED STATES)
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The Geography of a Tweet
A team of researchers lead by GDELT co-creator Kalev Leetaru gained access to the Twitter decahose last October and November and examined 1.5 million tweets from 71 million users.
Among the many things they parsed from the two terabytes of data was the average physical distance between an original tweet its retweet: Some 749 miles (1205 km).
For @ mentions, the average distance between one user referencing another when exact geolocation is known is 744 miles (1197 km).
The paper, Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter, also includes the geographic difference between mainstream news media and news items from Twitter:
Mainstream media appears to have significantly less coverage of Latin America and vastly better greater of Africa. It also covers China and Iran much more strongly, given their bans on Twitter, as well as having enhanced coverage of India and the Western half of the United States. Overall, mainstream media appears to have more even coverage, with less clustering around major cities.
Image: Detail, Network map showing locations of users retweeting other users (geocoded Twitter Decahose tweets 23 October 2012 to 30 November 2012), via FirstMonday.org. Select to embiggen.
(Source: gifthorsedentistry)
In recent days, one of the most comprehensive destinations for gossip about the Cleveland kidnapping victims was not an American news outlet. It was Mail Online, the Web site of the British tabloid The Daily Mail
This week’s cover of TIME focuses on the millennial generation, or as cover story author Joel Stein calls them, ‘The New Greatest Generation.’
Read a preview here.
(Photograph by Andrew B. Myers for TIME)
Read this as Meme Generation
Heading home (at Williamsburg Bridge)
Embroidered Newspapers (by Lauren Dicioccio)
Want.
Early din w/ @lcstroh (at Rosemary’s Enoteca & Trattoria)
Cherries
Tulip to human ratio going on 2:1
A new look at the famous Harvard study of what makes people thrive
Facebook sticker wall #latergram (at Facebook NYC)
.@badgalriri’s signature on the Facebook wall #latergram (at Facebook NYC)
Words of wisdom @ Facebook office (at Facebook NYC)
