What Happened August 6th?

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?

One thought on “What Happened August 6th?

  1. 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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