The Solar Powered Twitter Map

Solar Impulse is a airplane attempting to wing to a greater extent than or less the footing powered purely yesteryear the sun's energy. Flying on the Wings of Twitter is a mapped visualization of Tweets from to a greater extent than or less the footing sent inwards back upwards of Solar Impulse.

Flying on the Wings of Twitter uses CartoDB's Torque library to present an animated timeline of Tweets beingness posted to a greater extent than or less the footing inwards back upwards of the flight. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of Torque powered Twitter maps are niggling to a greater extent than than flashing dots on a map. Flying on the Wings of Twitter even as well as then moves a niggling beyond this yesteryear genuinely sending the Tweets into flying themselves.

As you lot progress inwards the timeline the Tweets genuinely wing from their origins to the place of Solar Impulse at the betoken the Tweets were sent. If you lot chop-chop motion through the timeline the flying path of the Solar Impulse is revealed on the map every bit all the Tweets descend upon the plane.