A world of tweets

World Sunlight Map Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated daily with current weather satellite imagery. The Mercator projection used here is one way of looking at the spherical earth as a flat map. Mapping applications, frameworks and libraries This is part of a series of posts to share with readers a useful collection of some of the most important, effective and practical data visualisation resources. This post presents the many different options for visualisation spacial data. Please note, I may not have personally used all the packages or tools presented but have seen sufficient evidence of their value from other sources. Whilst some inclusions may be contentious from a quality/best-practice perspective, they may still provide some good features and provide value to a certain audience out there. Finally, to avoid re-inventing the wheel, descriptive text may have been reproduced from the native websites if they provide the most articulate descriptions.

With Data Viz And GPS, Fuseproject Remakes The Game Of Golf Cyclists have Strava. Skiers have EpicMix. Even casual athletes have devices like Fuelband. Golf, on the other hand, is different. Chalk it up to the culture, the tradition, or the fairly small market of people who tee off with regularity, but golf has been fairly untouched by the advent of wearable technologies. 60+ Twitter Tools On Web Twitter is my favorite microblogging service, i’ve made a list of Twitter tools on web . Thank’s to all developers who has developed all these tools, they are cool and very nice.. . Not all of these tools good for your business or blog, my favorite is Twitterfeed , i dont need WordPress plugins anymore to automatic post my new blog entries to Twitter. VIPFollowers.com – a tools website for twitter. Here you will gain more followers for your account.

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Are Most Major Brands’ Twitter Followers Fake? Despite talk of measuring “engagement” and “interactions,” success on social platforms is often crudely judged by the size of the audience a brand has amassed. (Digiday has been guilty of this.) But on Twitter, marketers are talking to far fewer people than they think, according to data gathered from Status People’s Fake Follower Checker. According to the tool, over half the followers of the world’s 20 largest brands are either fake or inactive.