title: Inserting hyperlinks in pyplot interactive mode
body: <p>I am creating a visualization of Twitter user locations as tweets come in, and so within my matplotlib code I have these three lines to create an interactive plot so the location markers can be plotted in realtime:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  plt.ion()
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I'd like to do is add links to the original Tweet page within each marker.  So if you hover over a newly-added marker, you can click it and it opens up a browser and shows you the tweet.</p>
  
  <p>I'm hoping there's a way to add hyperlinks that are clickable in real-time, but I'm okay with saving the visualization to an .svg and then seeing the links appear in a static file within my browser.  I see <a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/hyperlinks.html" rel="nofollow">this example page</a> on how to do it, but it includes a plt.figure() statement which I don't have in my code.  How can I still produce the .svg with hyperlinks while running in interactive mode?</p>