New City Landscapes - Interactive Tweetography Maps

Over the past few months we have been harvesting geospatial data from Twitter with the aim of creating a series of new city maps based on Twitter data. Via a radius of 30km around New York, London, Paris, Munich we have collated the number of Tweets and created our New City Landscape Maps. New York New City LandscapeImage by urbanTick... [read more]

Note To Twitter Users: Please Stop Doing #FollowFriday Tweets

<!--break--> Nothing anybody tells you to do on Twitter is an absolute. Nothing. How you use it is truly up to you. That is, of course, unless you're an avid spammer, in which case you'll be dropped off Twitter. Other then that, it's your party. But if there's one thing I'm feeling more d strong about, it's advocating that you stop... [read more]

What should a public place be?

<!--break--> It seems that there’s been a lot of hype surrounding the Making Public Places forum hosted by Balmori + Associates that will take place tomorrow, Monday June 13th, on Twitter. The topic will be to discuss how to make an urban space a public place. While I’ve witnessed some events on Twitter, I didn’t follow them... [read more]

EcoMonday: Origins of a Twitter Follow Meme

<!--break--> The confluence of events that lead to the serendipitous success of the #EcoMonday Twitter meme. The genesis moment for #EcoMonday was April 24th, 2009, at precisely 1:34 pm Pacific Time. We know this because Twitter keeps up-to-the-minute records of everything we Tweet and Retweet. It was a Friday, and a unique series of... [read more]

How Do We Shift from Green Hype to Green Habit?

<!--break--> Creative Citizen asks the question that needs to be asked and looks for answers in the Twittersphere. Green has gone mainstream. It’s fashionable, marketable, and politically expedient. But it’s not reality. There’s a lot of hype surrounding the green movement, but we’re not seeing a lot of habit. The results just aren’t... [read more]