This is certainly one of the best data viz examples on the block. Tweetping is a real time data visualization of tweets worldwide. Shining dots on the world map show where social media activity is taking place. A panel placed at the bottom of the screen displays various counter widgets providing real time data on total tweet, chart, word, hashtag counts. There are widgets for the whole world as well as separate counters dedicated to South America, North America Europe, Africa and Asia. On the following screenshot which was taken around noon Eastern Time, you can see that most active social media interaction is happening in North America (US and Canada), coastal areas of South America (Brazil, Argentina etc), Europe and South East Asia. It seems that either Australia is asleep or has no interest in tweeting. This real time data visualization is an instance of the data visualization techniques application which is truly capable to wow a viewer.

You can also go to another interesting real time data visualization screen focused on tweets in California . In addition to showing an activity map, this interactive data analytics piece displays an ever changing list of most recent tweets.  They can be clicked taking you to an actual tweet.