Not Twittered out? Try Twittermap

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Not Twittered out? Try Twittermap

by Chris Gilmer Mar 16th 2007

Any Twitter user knows how addicting and mostly pointless it can be. Add a dash of Google Maps mashup, stir, and you have Twittermap.

Twittermap gathers the locations of the last messages from the Twitter community feed, and plots them on a Google Map. The result is a giant world map with points from current active Twitter users. Is it useful? No, it's just cool to look at what geographic areas other Twitter users are based in. You can also check out Geotwitter, another implementation of the same basic idea.

[via GoogleMapsMania]

Tags: google maps, GoogleMaps, twitter, twitter hacks, twitter mashup, TwitterHacks, TwitterMashup

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Len Steinmeier said 6:54PM on 3-17-2007

I was disapointed to find out I'm one of FIVE 'twits' within 200 miles of my home (using Twittermap)... Looks like Twitter hasn't really caught on in the southeast yet.

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