Figure 1
From: The ripple of fear, sympathy and solidarity during the Boston bombings
Daily number of geocoded tweets (volume) in dataset. Tweets without geocodes are removed. From top to bottom: the total daily volume, the daily volume within the Boston area, and the daily volume within the direct affected region (DAR). The vertical dashed lines indicate the day of Boston bombings (April 15; black line) and the day of manhunt (April 19; gray line). The tweets posted on April 1, 10 and one half of the day on April 11 were missing due to data collection process errors. There are over 180 million geocoded tweets over an entire month and only tweets posted within the geographical borders of the cities (over 38 million tweets in total) are used in further analysis.