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8.5 million geolocated tweets.

Above: a map created by James Cheshire, Ed Manley, and John Barratt, who collected 8.5 million geo-located tweets between January 2010 and February 2013.

Fast Company Design reports: "To build the image itself, they placed a point every 50 meters across the city. Tweets falling in close proximity were translated into a grid that you see here."

Among the revelations: Midtown is massively multilingual, "like a someone spilled a jar of confetti across the island."

More: Infographic: The Languages Of New York, Mapped By Tweets