I did a search the other day for the a new blog post I saw fly by on Twitter about the top 100 twitter applications and ended up re-reading a post from RRW about the top 10 twitter applications. Now the post is from 2007, so I am sure that the top 10 has changed quite a bit. What I took away from the article was a note about Twitter Atlas.
What’s it missing? The ability to get only your Twitter group’s tweets shown on the map.
First thought: really, that’s so silly there has to be a fun little mashup for that…and I on went to check out the top 100. Once there I pulled up all the map based apps…could not find anything that displayed, in easy fashion, the people you follow.
So, 4 hours later…damn I hate CSS…I need someone to do all my CSS work for me…its just not the part of coding that I like. Anyway, so I coded a mashup. You can guess what it does. Pop in a user, click and get the people they follow on a map. Then you can click on anyone they follow and do the same…its kinda fun and I waste a lot of time getting list in the network.
Downside, the twitter API requires auth to pull the total users..so I can’t tell how many people someone is follow, so I can’t figure out how many pages I need to request to get everyone. I only do one request.
Can anyone suggest a name?
Check it my twitter map mashup and let me know what you think…thanks!
Oh, anyone from ESRI..can I use your basemap data? I’d really like to redo this in the ArcGIS Server JS API….I think…
UPDATE: Crap its LATE!, I added a breadcrumb ..I think it encourages one to keep diving into the network. Which is really cool but without caching there is a huge number of requests to the google geocode service…yuck.. Next task…caching of markers…Late next week after I do some real client work…
Very cool. I think you should be able to use the ESRI basemaps as long as the site is non-commercial.
Cheers,
Jeremy