Mapping Twitter Tongues Of New York City

8.5 million geolocated tweets. Above: a map created by James Cheshire, Ed Manley, and John Barratt, who collected 8.5 million geo-located tweets between January 2010 and February 2013. Fast Company Design reports: "To build the image itself, they placed a point every 50 meters across the city. Tweets falling in close proximity were translated into a grid that you see here." Among the revelations: Midtown is massively multilingual, "like a someone spilled a jar of confetti across the island." More: Infographic: The Languages Of New York, Mapped By Tweets

 

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