The gong goes to Metallica whose Saturday night performance even inspired a volume of tweets in the sign of the horns!
Close behind was Dolly Parton, who trounced Sunday headliners Kasabian and cool kids Arcade Fire, Lana Del Rey and Haim.
In case you missed it: Last week we showed how the excitement built up for Glastonbury.
Below is one of our newer style visualisations we are trialling that shows the extent of the coverage over the last 2 weeks, a graph showing the peaks and troughs (it was a massive start!), along with some of the most popular tweets as time progresses.
We’ve been tracking the excitement build up this week, which you can see in our new style visualisation below.
This visualisation shows where people have been mentioning Glastonbury this week (and also mentioning they are packing their wellies).
At the bottom there’s also a chart showing the volumes over the week, and at the side we’re displaying the top tweets.
Congratulations to Brazil on winning the first game of the World Cup. It looks like most of the world was behind them.
Congratulations to Brazil on winning the first game of the World Cup.
It looks like most of the world was behind them.
We have also geo-fenced every stadium and are picking up great images from supporters there.
According to Twitter (who know these things), the two official hashtags for the 2014 World Cup are #WorldCup and #Brazil2014. But we are seeing a lot of others being used around the world.
According to Twitter (who know these things), the two official hashtags for the 2014 World Cup are #WorldCup and #Brazil2014.
But we are seeing a lot of others being used around the world.
We’ve collected 2.8m tweets from the last 72 hours, and found the following hashtags to be the most popular. The official hashtags are 1st and 5th.
Hashtag use varies a lot by region. The visualisation shows daily activity for the main hashtags over the last 4 weeks.
To better highlight regional differences we’re not displaying #worldcup, since that is the most widespread.
Spanish-speaking countries are using #brasil2014 more, French-speaking countries prefer #cm2014, and Portuguese-speaking countries are using #copa2014.
It’s 1 year since the NSA leaks, and we’ve used our analytics and visualisation tools to crunch 10,146,900 tweets that mention Edward Snowden.
It’s 1 year since the NSA leaks, and we’ve used our analytics and visualisation tools to crunch 10,146,900 tweets that mention Edward Snowden.
It seems the first ever tweet to mention Edward Snowden was from Janine Gibson (3 minutes before Glenn Greenwald himself).
The whistleblower behind the Guardian’s NSA Files revels himself as Edward Snowden. By @ggreenwald. http://t.co/NZIYj2JJiM
— Janine Gibson (@janinegibson) June 9, 2013
MEET OUR SOURCE, in his own words: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance http://t.co/tYQKJJDhK1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 9, 2013
We created a visualisation to show how, once his identity became public, the mentions of Snowden quickly overshadowed the mentions of the NSA and Prism.
We found 8,836,300 unique accounts that had mentioned Snowden in a tweet. Here are the 10 that were most retweeted or mentioned with regards to Snowden.
Below are the top tweets, hashtags, words and urls.
We’ve crunched a year and a half of selfie references into our visualisation tool to show it’s journey to world domination.
We take selfies for granted these days, but even just 18 months ago you could go for hours without seeing one.
We’ve crunched a year and a half of selfie references into our visualisation tool to show it’s journey to world domination.
London, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Melbourne and Manila put in the hard yards early on, and there was a big boost in November 2013 as it was named Word of the Year.
Barack Obama and David Cameron caused a stir by posing for a selfie at the Nelson Mandela’s memorial the next month, and in January 2014 we had the Twitter endorsed #SelfieOlympics. But of course, it was Ellen and her showbiz pals who really kicked it into the mainstream at the Oscars in March this year.
This also seems to broadly match the volume of searches for ‘selfie’ over on Google Trends.
