GeoTweets
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Most tweets have some sort of geolocation tag on them, do they not? I think it'd be pretty sick to be able to view a tweet's location in either a google-map or other map interface by clicking on the tweet (it could have a globe icon or something). In addition, clicking on a globe on a user's profile would throw up a map in google earth with all of their tweets visualized in their geographic locations.
Similarly, I think a mode in Spaz somewhat like WHERE's The Pulse could be very cool. Have a google map that shows tweets by their location (around your location to start) as they show up in realtime. This is a really cool functionality that I find fascinating.
Thanks!
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Ed Finkler on 21 Apr, 2011 07:44 PM
Most do not, actually -- most users do not geotags their messages. I think recent info I saw suggested well under 10% of users do so. That's the main reason I haven't pursued this. If someone is motivated, they can certainly look into it though.
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3 Posted by bec on 21 Apr, 2011 07:48 PM
Ah, okay. I was under the impression that it was far more common than 10%.
I have to admit, I'm mostly interested in geotweets as I am a GIS/Remote Sensing person (who just discovered Twitter about a week ago :P) so I like seeing the convergence of the social media and real-time mapping.
However, it would likely be a lot of work for a feature that at this point, as you've noted, is very under utilized.
Thanks for the clarification! Here's to hoping it gets more traction eventually.
elizabeth closed this discussion on 22 Apr, 2011 03:37 PM.