Animated map charts Twitter FA Cup Final mentions
Twitter has published an animated map highlighting how mentions of the FA Cup Final propagated worldwide as social media users followed the big match.The overlay was created by logging geotagged tweets mentioning Arsenal or Hull City on 17 May using the hashtag #FAcupfinal2014 with big beast Arsenal exlipsing interest in the relative minnows of Hull City.Naturally enough Britain is obscured by a big splodge of incandescence but urban centres across the North Eastern US, South East Asia and Africa also light up, showing the global appeal of English football and teams such as Arsenal in particular.
How the #FACupFinal played out on Twitter across the world: animated maphttp://t.co/gXI5iGUQ1y pic.twitter.com/1vf9mLDP9a
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) May 18, 2014