Check this page out. It has several very cool visualizations of the uprisings in the Middle East in 2011. It uses color and area, tweet counter with real-time update, and more. I’m out to figure how they are doing these things.

As uprisings turn to revolutions in the Middle East, Al Jazeera’s New Media team releases a Twitter Dashboard that illustrates what is being tweeted about and where.

In the top right section you can see the total number of tweets for the day about developments in these four countries.

Top left: Here the number of tweets for the day are graphed.

The bottom right shows the hashtag distribution for each country getting the most attention in the Twittersphere. Click each country’s name to expand, and right-click to collapse.

Bottom left: This is a Twitter stream of all tweets related to the four countries highlighted in this dashboard.

via Al Jazeera Blogs.