I Miss You, I Miss You, I Miss You.
An hour’s worth of tweets sent by individuals
from around the world on a random day in July,
containing the words “I miss you.”
Tweets are such fleeting, sporadic things – yet
in times of loneliness, deep emotion, they
sometimes hold so much weight. What if the
tweets we sent were postcards? Letters sent
to our loved ones? With a postage stamp and
our handwriting that could speak more than
our words?
For this illustration, I used the One Million Tweet
Map to extract eighteen data points of tweets
in the span of an hour, collected from corners
of the world such as Brazil, the Philippines, to
New York and Louisiana. Every stamp a mark
of place, and every coloured envelope a mark
of their emotions – classified by emojis and
sentiment analysis.
What resulted are 18 postcards. And there are
many more constantly coming. There are so
many words. There is so much to miss.