Breaking Bin Laden: A Closer Look
A post from the SocialFlow blog:
Since last Friday, when we first published Breaking Bin Laden: Visualizing the Power of a Single Tweet, our analysis and data visualization of the way news filtered out around the Bin Laden raid via the Twitter, we’ve been overwhelmed by the response. Thousands of Tweets, many in Spanish, French, German and Japanese.
There have been quite a few interesting articles written about our post as well. The Guardian asked important questions about how journalists can respond to the tremendous velocity of the real-time web. Over at Fast Company, Brian Solis used our visualization as a jumping off point for a discussion of who matters in “the information economy.”
There have been plenty of inquiries about the graph itself, so we wanted to provide you with the opportunity to explore it in greater depth. Click on the image below or download it, and zoom in to get a closer look at all of the intersecting forces that propelled a single tweet to its eventual astonishing spread.
Truly unusual work.
Makes me wonder about several things:
- What would it take to trace the addition of information to a topic map in a similar way?
- What would it look like to add information to the nodes in these graphs using a topic map?
- For that matter, what information would you want to add and why?