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This article was published on February 14, 2012

    This neat tool collects tweets that mention ‘love’ or ‘hate’ and maps them onto a 3D Earth

    This neat tool collects tweets that mention ‘love’ or ‘hate’ and maps them onto a 3D Earth
    Paul Sawers
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    Paul Sawers

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    Paul Sawers was a reporter with The Next Web in various roles from May 2011 to November 2014. Follow Paul on Twitter: @psawers or check h Paul Sawers was a reporter with The Next Web in various roles from May 2011 to November 2014. Follow Paul on Twitter: @psawers or check him out on Google+.

    Whether you love or hate Valentine’s Day, you’ll probably like this little ditty courtesy of digital agency Imperial Leisure.

    Love Will Conquer is a real-time, interactive, stream of tweets that mention the words love or hate…but it was built to work in Google Chrome only.

    The application collects geo-tagged tweets and maps them onto a 3D Earth, with messages from the last 10 hours animated into a 3D structure. The properties are determined by variables such as the time the tweets were posted, how long the tweets are and whether the tweets mention love or hate.

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    Users can browse the tweets by country, giving them a snapshot of how much love (and hate) there is in that country. Locations are pre-selected according to the volume of tweets coming from that location, and include the UK, US, Ireland, Canada, Spain, Italy, Japan…and about 20 in total.

    It’s a really neat tool, even just from an aesthetic standpoint. And you can click on individual ‘shoots’ and see the corresponding tweets.

    ➤ Love Will Conquer (Requires Google Chrome)