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twittearth A New Way to visualize Twitter
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on Monday April 21, @10:13AM
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from the this-will-make-twitter-more-addicting dept.
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twittearth is a new way to visualize the twiter public stream. It takes location data embedded in the twitter messages or tweets and displays these on a 3D spinning Globe. It is pretty addicting to watch. It has been described as twittervision on steriods.
If you don't know what Twitter is, it is a microblogging platform. The basic idea is that you as the user can send 140 character tweets out and your followers or the general public will be able toview those tweets. This is very useful for sending out short massages. Your followers will be notified of your tweets either by the webapage or a mobile device if they enable one. If you already have a Twitter account you can follow my tweets on twitter.
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The Brain off blog has a nice summary of the social messaging tool Twitter and mapping. From the blog: "What Twitter has done is opened a platform for lightweight mobile social messaging, that can possibly be overloaded and extended with new services. There have been numerous projects out there for location based social networking (dodgeball, plazes, many others) but nothing has caught on, for various reasons. [...] SMS is one of the very least communication infrastructures that can be relied on in a disaster zone .. certainly it would be available before internet access and the power that requires. Twitter turns SMS into a social networking platform, and I could definitely see some version of that being utilised, especially with location folded in." This post from the Data Mining blog adds info about GeoRSS feed for such social messaging tools.
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