For Assignment 2 I decided to stick with our Texas music tweets, but switch it up a bit. I chose to maps tweets about the singer Austin Mahone who is orginally from San Antonio. He’s what I like to call a “Viral Popstar”. An 18 year old who started posting covers on YouTube from his bedroom and is know signed with a record deal, touring all around the world. He is someone who gets a lot of tweets due to his large online following (7.27 million Twitter followers) and I knew his map would be interesting.
Using the “Snazzy Maps” website Jesse showed us, I made the map grayscale with a transparent image of Austin’s autograph as the marker.
I thought it was really cool that I got so many results from all over the world. Like I said in the beginning of the post, I knew he was a pretty internationally known artist, but it was so cool to see results from Africa and Asia, as well as the obvious countries like the USA and Brazil.