What 11/11/11 Looked Like On Twitter [VIDEO]

Nerd New Year, the alternate name for 11/11/11, has come and gone. And just like the regular New Year, when Twitter records have been broken, it was a popular day to tweet.

This video, created by Twitter's in-house data visualization specialist Miguel Rios, puts a geographic spin on that fact. It shows a wall of tweets moving around the world -- first at 11:11am local time, then at 11:11pm. The scale of the "1" represents the volume of tweets from that location.

"Whether you were inclined to crack a joke about this rare binary occurrence, wax poetic about its meaning, or join in a global game to share photos at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., numerology dominated the conversation," read a post about the visualization video on the official Twitter blog.

As fascinating as it is, the video is incomplete -- there's no clock to tell us exactly what time we're seeing at any given moment. The two waves of 11:11 local time are easy to pick out, but some parts of the U.S. seem to have jumped the gun, while tweeters in Europe and the Middle East seem to form a second wave of interest in the date.