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Using twitter to track Eurogamer Expo 2011 London

Notice the heavy concentration of red dots over the map. These were coming off Earl's Court in London during the Eurogamers 2011 Expo in London.

Drilling down using our Clima.Me framework we were able to see precisely what many people were saying about the conference, from raves about certain games to complaints about long lines.

This kind of technology allows people to not only count attendence of twitter users at certain events, but also to guage in real time what people at specific places or events think the activity. It opens up new ways of doing rapid, agile research that is ground in place and time without having to send field workers to the site.

By the way we could not see any games really going viral among twitter users at the expo. So we might assume that we will be entering a Christmas season without the presence of a much have game. Lets see how it goes.

Finding Fun: 3 Case Studies in Web 3.0

The Web 3.0 Lab has carried out research in three locations in Europe trying to find ways to use Twitter geo-tagging to find fun places: Istanbul, Amsterdam and London. The challenge was to find the following:

Places that were fun,
Places that the tour guides often did cover,
Places that tourist were looking for and could not find.

In Amsterdam and Istanbul we have identified regions where locals go to eat and have fun. We have found that looking at our heat map of tweets on the cities that these locations become obvious.

In the case of Istanbul it was rather striking, the fun areas outside of the major tourist areas are light up very clearly.

Our research confirms that tourists can use the density of twitter locations to find interesting places to have fun. So go out there and explore.

Are London Mosques Being Attacked, Social Media Tracking

Harrow Mosque where there are reprots on Twitter of a Mosque attacked. During the riots tweets reached the high 60s on our clima.me scale to 100. Such levels for a Monday night are extremely high.

Whitechapel Mosque where there have been reports of attacks on a Mosque. This is a major urban area with a large art community, but tweeting of 80 to 90 on our clima.me scale is very high for the middle of the night.

With great concern we are reading reports of Mosques in London being attacked. In both cases we can see a lot of tweets coming from the area around the Mosque. We hope this is Muslims trying to protect their Mosques. This opens up a major potential danger if the rioting starts involving hate attacked.