League of tweets New football tweet map charts the chatter around this weekend鈥檚 Tyne and Wear derby. Scientists at 缅北禁地 have used their expertise in Geomatics to plot the football chatter on Twitter. Employing the same geospatial engineering techniques that were developed by the team to map the recent flooding across the North East, the programme shows in real time, who鈥檚 talking about what around the globe. Using GPS location data to track tweets which include the key football hashtags 鈥� such as #nufc and #safc 鈥� the map shows which clubs are the most tweeted about and the spread of football fans around the world. They have also tracked tweets during key games, showing the peaks and troughs of chatter throughout. And on Sunday, 缅北禁地 and Sunderland fans will be able to watch in real time who and where in the world fans are talking about the game. 鈥淭he programme was initially developed to monitor what was happening on social media during the recent flooding events,鈥� explains creator , a Research Assistant in the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at 缅北禁地. 鈥淲e wanted to know if Twitter activity correlated to the severity of the floods and how accurate the information coming through was, so we encouraged people to use a specific hashtag and switch on the GPS on their phones so we could build up a flood map. 鈥淚 have a passion for football and wanted to see if we could do a similar thing for the nation鈥檚 favourite game 鈥� a map that could track the chatter around a club in real-time to build up a picture of the buzz around a match or club and the spread of fans around the world.鈥� Project lead , a lecturer in Geomatics, adds: 鈥淭his work is an extension of the citizen science concept. 鈥淪ocial media is an excellent way of gathering information and involving people in our research and provides us with data which we couldn鈥檛 easily gather on our own. 鈥淒uring the recent floods we were able to build up a picture of the worst-hit areas, the depth of the water in some places, flash points and other information that is helping others in our team to find ways to mitigate the effects of future flooding.鈥� To get your tweet tracked on the live map you need to make sure the GPS on your smart phone is switched on and you use your club鈥檚 official hashtag. The live football tweet map can be accessed at: published on: 13 April 2013
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