Facebook may have five times as many users, but Twitter now plays a vital role in how news spreads.
You can see the scale of Twitter’s influence in a visualization showing tweets relating to the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri after Michael Brown was shot and killed by local police officer Darren Wilson. Twitter’s data team created the following map based on mentions of the city and other related key words. Watch as Ferguson spreads from a local, to a national, and then an international news story in a matter of days.
As The Atlantic points out, the greatest amount of …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
