Twitters relations with MH17
Twitter
is an online social networking service that allows users to send and read short
140-character messages called “tweets”. Users can read tweets posted by people
they follow and other people they don’t follow, as long as the user isn’t on
private. Users can access Twitter through the website interface, or the app on
tablets and mobile devices. Twitter is based in San Francisco and has over 25
offices around the world. The company
experienced rapid growth. It had 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007.
This grew to 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008. In February 2010,
Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. By March 2010, the
company recorded over 70,000 registered applications. As of June 2010, about 65
million tweets were posted each day, equaling about 750 tweets sent each
second, according to Twitter. As of March 2011, that was about 140 million
tweets posted daily. On September 12, 2013, Twitter announced that it had
filled papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of a
planned stock market listing. On November 7, 2013, the first day of trading on
the NYSE, Twitter shares opened at $26.00 and closed at US$44.90, giving the
company a valuation of around US$31 billion.
MH17
was the mysterious case of a plane that was evidently shot down by Russian-made
Buk missiles over eastern Ukraine. This investigation went on for 15 months and
was finally solved a few weeks ago. The plane crashed in rebel-held eastern
Ukraine. The government in Ukraine and several Western officials said the
missile was brought from Russia and launched from the rebel-held part of
Ukraine. But Russian officials have again rejected these accusations. It
confirmed the missile could have been fired from an area of about 320 square
kilometers in the east of Ukraine. Further study would be required to pinpoint
the exact launch site. The visualization shows all of the different tweets
about the MH17. It includes videos, articles, and just basic tweets about the
plane, the mystery of the crash, and discovery of the crash. In my opinion, it
would be very difficult to dissect this information just because there is so
much and it is such a small font.
