A beautiful new data visualization piece from Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth shows how the microblogging network's approximately 50,000 verified users connect online.
The zoomable graphic below shows mutual follows between some of the biggest names in media, politics, sports and entertainment. Blue points signify news-related accounts, purple connotes politics-related accounts, red points come from the music world, yellow signifies sports-related accounts and green points show accounts from the television world.
Check the graphic out for yourself here, zooming in for a closer look at different connections:
Announced on Twitter's blog Thursday morning, the data visualization was created by Hepworth during an internal company hack week.
"One of the many fascinating things about this diagram is that it shows which accounts tend to follow those outside their category," Twitter's blog post reads. "For example, the reason that blue and purple almost seem to merge into one another is that journalists tend to follow politicians, and vice versa. The same is true of TV and music, down in the bottom right, with musicians and TV stars following each other often."
Take a few minutes to play around with the graphic for yourself, then share your own findings in the comments below.