Twitter's visual pulse

Jonathon S. Hare, Sina Samangooei, David Dupplaw, Paul H. Lewis

Abstract: Millions of images are tweeted every day, yet very little research has looked at the non-textual aspect of social media communication. In this work we have developed a system to analyse streams of image data. In particular we explore trends in similar, related, evolving or even duplicated visual artefacts in the mass of tweeted image data - in short, we explore the visual pulse of Twitter.