As a byproduct of generating the Twitter Wall I created for TEDxWaterloo I ended up with about a thousand speech bubble images, representing the Twitter conversation during the event.

As an experiment I pieced all of these speech bubble images together into a huge image (182 megapixels). The thought was that stitching together all these messages in a visual grid would provide a visualisation of the day and a novel way to browse the conversation. Check out the final product.

Luckily for me others have already figured out how to split large images into tiles and integrate with the Google Maps browser for a ready made system to explore huge images online.