RADIO · TOGETHER
Listen together
Tuning into a station in ReykjavĂk or Nairobi can feel solitary — just you and a signal from somewhere far away. But you’re usually not alone: other people are quietly listening across LiveEarthViewer right now, some in the very same station. This is the room they’re in — how many are here this minute, which stations they’re tuned to, and a wave you can send to say hi. It’s the same live listeners the now ticker scrolls, gathered into one place.
What “together” means here
It means co-presence, not synced audio. We won’t pretend everyone in a room is hearing the exact same second — live radio streams buffer differently for every listener and there’s no way to seek them into lockstep, so any “perfectly in sync” claim would be a fiction, and we don’t do fictions here. What’s real is this: the count is LiveEarthViewer’s own concurrent listeners, counted live from a rolling 60-second window; a room is a station someone is genuinely tuned to this minute; and a wave is a real, anonymous tap from a real person, fading after a minute or two. You appear by place only (“someone in your city”), never by name, with no account and nothing stored on your device — and the guessing game is kept out of the room, so it can never spoil an answer.
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The Atlas \u00b7 Earwitness — the guessing game \u00b7 the live Earth