A few weeks ago two people had a baby and some other people got a bit excited by this miraculous event. For those of us living in the UK it was hard to avoid the endless news items about the birth of Prince George. Judging by this Prince George Twitter Map in many other parts of the world it was also hard to avoid endless chatter about this baby.
The map shows some interesting results. Obviously in the UK, as subjects of the crown, we are legally obliged to post our congratulations to our royal overlords. It is therefore not surprising that Twitter heats up the UK on the map. It is surprising that the republican United States also seemed to get into a bit of a tizzy over news of this royal birth. Meanwhile their northern neighbors in Canada, where the Queen still rules as head of state, the news seems to have been greeted with a bit of a collective 'meh'.
News of a new royal baby seemed to be almost entirely ignored in Eastern Europe, seemed to cause a bit of stir in Southeast Asia and also woke up all those elderly UK retirees residing in the south of Spain.
4 comments:
anyone ever done a twitter reaction map, where they difference the population, ie have map where the population density is less of factor
I was thinking along similar lines. It looks like Canada didn't tweet as much as the USA on this map but population density obviously plays a large part in that.
It also looks like Canadians in Alberta were disproportionately pumped.
I totally agree. Without normalization by population density, or to be more precise, by density of twitter users this visualization is good looking but misleading
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