Worldwide Inauguration via Twitter

Flowing Data created this fantastic video to demonstrate the level of buzz surrounding Barack Obama's induguration on Twitter in the lead up, during and after the event which took place at midday on Tuesday 20th Jan.


Not only does this show how this historic event captured the attention of the entire world, but it illustrates the dramatic rise in popularity of the micro-blogging tool. Also, Obama's innovative use of social media in his election campaign + the fact that he himself has 144,000 Twitter followers would only have fuelled these conversations online. Good work. Shame he's not even allowed to send emails now he's President. Oops.

Thanks socialmedia.biz for posting this + for the blog title (which I stole from you!)