NEWS:REWIRED – by Sarah Marshall
The Wall Street Journal has started using data visualisation (albeit in a fairly simple form) in tweets, using an online tool called Sparkblocks. The tweets are being called “sparktweets”.
And other so-called sparktweets have since been created:
We tracked the use of the hashtag #sparktweets using Hashtags.org:
Zach Seward’s blog explains how the Wall Street Journal’s unemployment sparktweet came about. He says that the team first tried using Unicode to display graphics in tweets, but found there were problems when viewing on Macs. [Read more…]