Egypt Twitter Map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry Users
Colleagues at GNIP and MapBox recently published this high-resolution map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry users in the US (click to enlarge). “More than 280 million Tweets posted from mobile phones reveal geographic usage patterns in unprecedented detail.” These patterns are often insightful. Some argue that “cell phone brands say something about socio-economics – it takes a lot of money to buy a new iPhone 5,” for example (1). So a map of iPhone users based on where these users tweet reveals where relatively wealthy people live.
