--- title: 10 Best Questions from TIME's 1 World Trade Center Twitter Chat description: Here are the 10 best questions from LightBox's 1 World Trade Center Twitter chat canonical: https://time.com/3807700/world-trade-center-twitter-chat/ author: Mia Tramz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-10T20:47:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:00:04.465Z article:section: World og:title: 10 Best Questions from TIME's 1 World Trade Center Twitter Chat og:description: Here are the 10 best questions from LightBox's 1 World Trade Center Twitter chat og:url: https://time.com/3807700/world-trade-center-twitter-chat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41d52b74b80c48b/6987e656524fc02ebedefae1/time-on-top-of-1wtc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jonathan Woods (in orange) assists ironworkers as they remove the 13-foot-long jib from the beacon at the very top of 1 World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 28, 2013. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 10 Best Questions from TIME's 1 World Trade Center Twitter Chat twitter:description: Here are the 10 best questions from LightBox's 1 World Trade Center Twitter chat twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41d52b74b80c48b/6987e656524fc02ebedefae1/time-on-top-of-1wtc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 10 Best Questions from TIME's 1 World Trade Center Twitter Chat  by [Mia Tramz](/author/mia-tramz/)  ## Mia Tramz Mar 10, 2014 8:47 PM CUT  Jonathan Woods (in orange) assists ironworkers as they remove the 13-foot-long jib from the beacon at the very top of 1 World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 28, 2013. Jonathan Woods (in orange) assists ironworkers as they remove the 13-foot-long jib from the beacon at the very top of 1 World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 28, 2013.Douglas Holgate—New York On Air for TIME  by [Mia Tramz](/author/mia-tramz/)  ## Mia Tramz Mar 10, 2014 8:47 PM CUT On **Friday, March 7**, LightBox hosted a live Twitter chat with TIME Senior Editor of Photo and Interactive, Jonathan Woods, and Mike Franz of Gigapan, who created the [1 World Trade Center interactive panorama](time.com/wtc "undefined"). Woods and Franz took questions about picking the right equipment, the technology they used to make the panorama, and potential future projects. Below, we’ve archived the 10 best questions and answers from the chat. To see the whole chat, visit [@TimePictures](https://twitter.com/timepictures "undefined") on Twitter or search the hashtag [#AskLightbox](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AskLightbox&src=typd&f=realtime "undefined"). **On the software they used to make the panorama:** **On picking the right equipment:** **On troubleshooting technical issues:** **On gaining access to 1 World Trade Center:** **On the number of images it took to make the 360 panorama:** **On getting a perfectly clear day:** **On the final result:** **On the potential practical applications of the panorama:** **On future projects:** **On the ironworkers that built 1 World Trade Center:** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3807700/world-trade-center-twitter-chat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3807700/world-trade-center-twitter-chat/"},"headline":"10 Best Questions from TIME's 1 World Trade Center Twitter Chat","datePublished":"2014-03-10T20:47:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:00:04.465Z","description":"Here are the 10 best questions from LightBox's 1 World Trade Center Twitter chat","url":"https://time.com/3807700/world-trade-center-twitter-chat/","keywords":["LightBox","New York City","the backstory"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41d52b74b80c48b/6987e656524fc02ebedefae1/time-on-top-of-1wtc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mia Tramz","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mia-tramz/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41d52b74b80c48b/6987e656524fc02ebedefae1/time-on-top-of-1wtc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jonathan Woods (in orange) assists ironworkers as they remove the 13-foot-long jib from the beacon at the very top of 1 World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 28, 2013.","caption":"Jonathan Woods (in orange) assists ironworkers as they remove the 13-foot-long jib from the beacon at the very top of 1 World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 28, 2013.","creditText":"Douglas Holgate—New York On Air for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3807700/world-trade-center-twitter-chat/","name":"10 Best Questions from TIME's 1 World Trade Center Twitter Chat"}}]}] ```