Meanwhile, the UK and Ireland are painted in a delightfully miserable Seattle Rainy Gray.

Strange Maps recently had a variety of maps submitted showing the number of tweets...per country...per language...per specific location within that country, all shown in one of those lovely lit-up nighttime maps.

In essence, the brighter a country (or grayer in some cases), the more it tweets--and each color represents a different language.

In other words, Europe looks like this:

Russia is the surface of the moon, and Moscow is Tranquility Base. Germany, meanwhile, in a time-honored tradition, is invading other countries again, this time with its language. In a surprising turn of events, France and its language haven't receded, as it, too, is equally imperialistic.

What's somewhat curious (to a dweeb like me) is the little yellowing sweat stain on Spain's armpit. That's not a new country between France and Spain--that's just the Catalans in Spain speaking their own language, shunning the national Spanish.

Not shown on these maps? My apathy toward Twitter.



Map: Strange Maps