Real-time interactive mode with social
media
• 52 MINUTES each hour.
• ALL TWITTER USERS can interact
directly with the Jacques Cartier
Bridge, causing a point of light to
appear from one of the bridge’s
‘towers’ and move across the bridge’s
skin.
• 2 REAL-TIME SOCIAL MEDIA feeds are
used: Tweets making reference to
Montréal (eg. #montreal); and Tweets
addressed to bridge-specific hashtags
(eg. #illuminationMTL).
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2 DISTINCT COLOURS are used to
differentiate the Tweets for Montréal
from the Tweets for the bridge.
UP TO 500 LIGHT POINTS,
representing the most recent and
most-liked TWEETS, circulate
simultaneously on the bridge’s skin,
before the oldest and least popular
gently fade out.
Unique hourly show, based on big data
collected from Montreal
• 8 MINUTES each hour
With 53 data points in 11 different
categories collected every day in real
time, the possibilities to mirror Montreal’s
energy are infinite.
The bridge translates urban big data
collected from sensors over the course of
the day and updated every hour, into a
series of eye-catching data visualisations.
Pulling from a wide variety of data sources,
including weather, traffic, news and social
media, each hourly show is generated
in real-time and is totally unique. The
ever-changing content makes the Jacques
Cartier Bridge a true barometer of
Montreal life.
Photo credit: Moment Factory