Visualization of How People on Twitter Reacted to the Internet Blackout

By Scott Beale on January 22, 2012

Andrei Taraschuk and Aaron Ott created a fascinating visualization showing how people on Twitter reacted the Internet blackouts on January 18th in protest of SOPA and PIPA by mapping tweets mentioning #pipa #sopa and #blackout.

via Andrew Hyde

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