Yesterday much of the D.C. area was watching a stand-off between James J. Lee and police at Discovery Channel’s Headquarters just outside of Washington D.C. I found out about the incident as I get most of my news, through Twitter. I was interested in seeing if people were actually tweeting about the incident from the area. Lately I’ve been playing with location searches in the Twittering Stream API, so I set a search for a bounding box around Silver Spring. I started the query around 2pm (an hour after things started) and ran it until 8 a.m. when I got into work today.
There were a couple interesting things about the data. Nobody was tweeting with location enabled directly from the Discovery Channel, though one person checked into the Discovery Channel on FourSquare about the time that the stand-off ended.
There was also a decent amount of pictures of the Police SWAT vehicles as well. Investigate here yourself.
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