Ever wish you could plot Twitter public timeline messages on a 3D map of the world? No use trying to pretend. We know you, and we know that you think of absolutely nothing else all day. Fortunately, there's a cure for what ails you: Twittearth. Or Twittervision. Both web applications do pretty much the same thing: show a rotating globe with the latest public tweets. But newcomer Twittearth is marginally more attractive, and it has cute little icons to represent each messge.

Twittearth also comes in screensaver form. Windows users can download the screensaver and look at the latest tweets from around the globe when their computer goes idle. Not that you're likely to be sitting in front of your computer and reading the screen when it's idle, but the spinning globe is still pretty, OK? A Mac version of the screen saver is in the works.

There's also a module for Twittearth users to login to their Twitter accounts and post tweets, but we weren't able to actually send a message no matter how many times we hit submit.

[via Mashable]