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Social Media Mapping

Social networks look to map the world via data collected on users

Implications - Data from several social networks is now being used for ventures far more advanced than targeted advertising. Data from social media sources such as Twitter and Facebook are now being used to map global resolutions, sicknesses and language use locations. How, where, why and when people are virtually interacting can be extremely useful for understanding target markets.
Trend Themes
1. Social Media Mapping - Social media mapping using data from various social networks is now being used for ventures far more advanced than targeted advertising like mapping global resolutions, sicknesses, and language use locations.
2. Crowdsourced Location Tagging - Platforms like TagTagCity crowdsource a digital planned overview of practically any location one can visit for leisure, entertainment, arts, and culture, which can be accessed through mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, sending promotional deals, discounts and historical backgrounds, thus creating opportunities for the tourism industry.
3. Social Media Sickness Trackers - Infographics using Twitter or other social media platforms provides a valuable tool for tracking and predicting real-time health epidemics for pharmaceutical and health insurance companies or hospitals to be able to allocate and distribute resources.
Industry Implications
1. Tourism - Use platforms like TagTagCity to create a crowdsourced overview of locations that can attract tourists to specific destinations and provide promotional deals, discounts, and historical information.
2. Healthcare - Social media metrics like Twitter feeds or geotagged data help track the spread of disease or predict real-time health threats, which is valuable for preventing epidemics and allocating resources in hospitals, while also building products for pharmaceutical and health insurance companies.
3. Advertising - The use of social media mapping or other similar platforms can help businesses identify target markets, track customer behavior and purchasing patterns, and innovate marketing strategies, ultimately increasing revenue and ROI.
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Social Media Maps
Social Media Maps
The Randall Munroe 'Online Communities' Maps Give Direction to n00bs
The Randall Munroe 'Online Communities' maps make web surfing easy for the less Internet-savvy. The maps outline the Internet's biggest websites as countries and seas, giving clarity to each site's ranking… MORE
Aerial Tweet Maps
Aerial Tweet Maps
Fast Company Design Aerial Maps Reveal Twitter User Data of NYC and London
These aerial tweet maps reveal information and user data about the way New Yorkers and Londoners tweet. The information highlighted in the maps reveals the most common languages people tweet in in... MORE
Search Engine-Mapped Goals
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Google Zietgeist Resolutions Unites the World and Encourages Progress
The Google Zeitgeist Resolutions 2012 application is an awesome way to share your New Years Resolutions with the world and gain inspiration. The application encourages users to share their hopes and... MORE
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The Eric Fischer NYC Twitter Map Shows Tweet-Sensitive Zones
This black and white grid is compilation of 10,000 tweets and is known as the NYC Twitter map. Programmer Eric Fischer wanted to run an experiment to see how active civilians of New York were using social… MORE
Crowdsourced Location Tagging
Crowdsourced Location Tagging
TagTagCity is a Crowdsourced Digital Overview of Visited Locations
TagTagCity is a Belgium-based web platform that aims to create a crowdsourced overview of practically any location one can visit for leisure, entertainment, arts and culture. The platform is a... MORE
Social Media Sickness Trackers
Social Media Sickness Trackers
This Infographic Uses Twitter for Tracking the Flu
Flu season is in full swing and with widespread reports of mass sicknesses, it’s useful to start tracking the flu. This infographic uses Twitter to accomplish this. The graph shows a map of... MORE

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