Twitter: Watch ‘Happy New Year’ Spread Around the Globe

Happy New Year! Now that you’re back at work (and hopefully hangover-free), here’s a little visualization tool from Twitter showing the new year spreading across the globe.

The interactive visualization tracks the new year across the map, and then provides a graph showing the frequency of ‘Happy New Year’ in each language over time. Click on the image to ‘watch’ as 2014 arrives:

Twitter Happy New Year visualization