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# Visualizing Twitter
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/visualizing-twitter/
- Published: 2013-06-17T15:41:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-14T11:24:00.000Z
- Description: What did Twitter look like in 2009?
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Big Data, Dataviz, The Visual Organization, Twitter

I'm knee-deep into research for the new book and there's no shortage of fascinating examples of data visualizations. Here's one of several neat [infographics on Twitter from 2009](https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/more-truth-about-twitter/?ref=philsimon.com).

![viz](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7429/9068948414_19e306433d.jpg)

So far, the most interesting visualizations are the interactive ones. While early, it's clear to me that there are myriad ways to make data tell a story. To paraphrase [Hans Rosling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%5FRosling?ref=philsimon.com), "Let the dataset change your mindset."