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Update: mapping those following America.gov on twitter

Posted on October 28, 2009 By Wandren
Data mapping, Dispersed Networks, Network analysis, networks, Public Diplomacy

Matt Armstrong a while back highlighted the issue that America.gov had more followers listing their location as in America, than they did followers from the rest of the world.

I mapped the data he collected to demonstrate how the location of those followers could be broken down by region.  By way of an update, here’s an alternative map of the same data.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIS1cBpqXA]

please forgive the colours, they aren’t exactly the same as in the original, but I hope you’ll still get the idea.

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