Spread of tweets/retweets worldwide during Japan earthquake

"This video displays worldwide retweets of Tweets originating in Japan for one hour after the earthquake. Senders’ original Tweets are shown in red; Tweets retweeted by their followers in the hour after the event are displayed in green." - Twitter
Jinxsays...

Pretty amazing that information spreads almost at lightspeed from one side of the world to the other. Its hard to imagine a time when it would takes months just to cross from mainland Europe to the States.

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