We only include accounts that Tweet primarily (really exclusively for practical purposes) in English. So it may be that there are more English language accounts in the UK that are fans of that team than in Germany. Just a guess. I think the various data normalization and other enhancements discussed throughout this thread would also help.
Thanks for the great suggestions. All are features that we'll add in the future. The goal was really to get something out there that had a small bit of utility and spend more time on it if people found the visualization interesting. As I mentioned a few threads up, this is something that our outgoing summer intern worked on during his last few days with us and we wanted to release it before he headed back to school.
No- it's not just keyword mentions. Our main product analyzes the both the content of an individuals Tweets and social factors to make decisions about what they know. I'd be happy to share more about how we do that- shoot me a note at joe@inboxq.com if you want to chat.
Definitely something we've considered for a future enhancement. Our summer intern worked on this map over the last few days and we wanted to release it before he headed back to the UK later this week.
No, black hat would be more comment backlink blasts and such, using tools like scrapebox.
I think it's called "white hat" more so than "black hat" because it's usually "safe" to do so. i.e., Google will not be able to automatically detect these links which are against their terms of service to penalize them.
Company name or industry would be helpful. It looks like you may be going for the concept of a shark. If that is important to get across quickly when people see the logo, then #1 is probably a bit better.
No. Questions were culled from Tweets with the #AskObama hashtag starting on June 30. Some of the questions did come in close to real-time. I think the most recent ones were 5-10 minutes old when presented to the president.
