Twitter Look on 11.11.11 :: Once in a Lifetime [video]

Twitter has becoming a more powerful social tool, we’ve ever imagined before. Twitter activity feeds, tweets per second, twitter daily trends.. etc are like trending anonymously even a user couldn’t imagine. Because, twitter has very recently reached their 100 million successful users, as they’ve mentioned about this within their official blog.

Now, as we know few days back it was 11th November 2011. We simply named it as 11.11.11 which the date won’t appear for another 100 years or so. More than Facebook when you look at Twitter, most of us seen, that the date was trending there. This was a massive hit which we see once in a lifetime.

As per twitter blog;

Increasingly people flock to Twitter to discover information and connect around occurrences like natural disasters, sporting events and cultural moments. And then there are times when Twitter is where you might go to experience an infrequent curiosity.

Take last Friday, which was November 11, 2011. Whether you were inclined to crack a joke about this rare binary occurrence, wax poetic about its meaning, or join in a global game to share photos at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., numerology dominated the conversation.

This clip is a visualization of all the Tweets mentioning 11:11 on 11.11.11. Each “1” is a location that moves with the conversation on Twitter. Their scale varies depending on the volume of Tweets posted from the location they represent. You can see the main wave move from right to left, and then a second one that occurred at 11 p.m. around the world

[box] The above video has been visualized by Miguel Rios, who’s an Analytics & Data Visualization person at Twitter [/box]