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TweetsAbound.com – Tweets From Everywhere

TweetsAbound.comThis is a mashup that takes the public timeline of Twitter and applies Google Maps to it. The idea is to display tweets geographically, and let you know more about the spot where these messages originated from.

While this is not something groundbreaking, the functionality is certainly useful. It is one thing reading a tweet from somebody whose profile name and avatar tell you nothing about who he or she is. It is another entirely different to read a tweet when you know where did it come from.

Of course, since tweets come from all over the world some are in foreign languages. When I visited the site I was presented with tweets in Japanese and Portuguese as well as in English and in French. That is somehow distracting, and it is something that I think could be avoided by adding a language filter option. That shouldn’t be that hard to implement, and if such a feature were added along with some further refinement labels then it would all be smoother, and certainly more useful than the mere curiosity that I think TweetsAbound stands as right now.

TweetsAbound.com In Their Own Words

“Hi, I am Ryan Heath and I built this web application mashup as a prototype to demonstrate the capabilities of taking real time Twitter data and plotting it via Google’s Maps API.”

Why TweetsAbound.com It Might Be A Killer

Such a tool makes for contextualizing tweets in a direct way. It will be good fun for twitterers, and potentially interesting for carrying out research if some further functionalities were added.

Some Questions About TweetsAbound.com

When will the site be updated? What will be added to it next? TweetsAbound.com

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