What Happened August 6th?

Posted by: Britt | August 7, 2008 | 1 Comment |

I was checking out a cool visualization application that Jeff Nugent alerted me to in Twitter this morning – Twitter StreamGraph. I entered “elearning” and got the following graph:

Since Twitter Streamgraph grabs the last 200 tweets that used the word “elearning”, it makes me wonder what happened on August 6th that jumped its usage so much.

Any ideas?

under: fun
Tags: twitter, visualization

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My guess would be the start of the Distance Teaching and Learning conference in Madison. eLearning is far more tweetable than Distance Teaching and Learning. 21 fewer characters.

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By: Barry Dahl on August 7, 2008
at 11:08 am