ChirpCity Organizes Tweets By City - Kind Of.

93 Points

There's a new Twitter geo-locator on the block: ChirpCity - and this one is about as effective as the others.

Claiming to organize Tweets by location, ChirpCity shows some initial progress, but ultimately falls short of being a one-stop Twitter geo-locator service. The site organizes Tweets organized "From" a city, and "about" a city. The "From" a city feature works well enough - provided it's actually a city. If it's a smaller town, ChirpCity doesn't do particularly well for it - typing in my hometown of "Needham" gave me a list of results that weren't actually "from"...

TwitterWhere Lets You Follow Tweets by Geographic Location

-9 Points

We have been able to follow random tweets by geographic location on a map via Twittervision and Twittermap but other than fun, it isn't that useful in our opinion. What if you wanted to follow all tweets from the city of London, UK. Well now you can. TwitterWhere lets you input a location and a radius (1 mile away, 5 miles away etc). Once you do this, submit your selection and TwitterWhere will create an RSS feed and an XML feed that you can follow in your feed reader.

While we don't have an immediate use for this, many of you will find it handy for sure. ...

Twittervision 3D Launched

92 Points

If you thought the original Twittervision was cool, you need to check out Twittervision 3D . It is by the creator of Twittervision, Dave Troy. You can watch tweets around the world literally now. Whenever there is a tweet, the globe spins to that place and the tweet appears. You can also change the altitude / view. 

 

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Plazes adds location based twitter like service - without the download

4 Points

Well they haven't added it yet, it will be coming in the coming weeks. Before they required a download which was limiting usage. Maybe now they will get user uptake.

Story broken by Techcrunch

  • May 18, 2007

Twittervision releases API to its twitter geo-locator service

219 Points

This is hot off the presses and now Twittervision is allowing you to connect into their app via a new API. From their twittervision API website:

"Yes, it's time. We wanted to publish easy ways for people to work with the location-based information available through Twittervision and Twittermap. This is a start. There is more coming."

It looks like you can get the location and status of a user so far. We will see how the API and Twittervision develops and what they have up their sleeve next. It is just a guess but I assume that they (twittervision) must be getting hit with a...

  • Apr 19, 2007

Twitter Atlas

166 Points

This looks like the best twitter map application we have seen so far. You can see the public timeline and where the twitters are coming from. It is made by Fresh Logic using geoRSS and Microsoft Virtual Earth Twitter Atlas here.. Twitter Atlas screenshots below

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  • Apr 9, 2007

Twitter Earth

105 Points

A shoot off of twittervision called twitter earth has been revealed by Genexis consulting. Looks like a pretty cool idea but will need some more features. Maybe it is just for fun.. who knows with so many mashups being launched right now. Have fun

Twitter Earth

  • Apr 6, 2007