Culture
Watch a Map of Lost Productivity (Otherwise Known as Tweeting)
All the tweets in the world glimmer in this entrancing visualization of real-time tweets.
Well, lookee here: Someone's built a map of lost time... er, tweeting.
This visualization of the planet lit up by legions of blipping fireflies is a real-time indicator of where people are using Twitter. The tweet count starts the minute you open the page; a dashboard at the bottom cites the number of words and characters per tweet (also shown as gray lines in the equalizer-looking areas) as well as recent hashtags like #carnivale2013 and #PostPeriodBitching. (South and North America, respectively, but you probably guessed that.)