DIY mashup of Twitter friends tweets on a map
If you know about Twitter you know about Twittervision, a cool mashup where you can watch Tweets from the public timeline on map (also see Twittermaps).
Problem is that you can’t limit this view to only your Twitter friends, well now you can as shown by James Corbett…it works by reading the Geo (location) element in the RSS feed.
Mind you this isn’t like Twittervision, it’s just a simple way to see mapped Tweets, I guess you’d have to refresh the page…in all it doesn’t seem to work very well for me.
All techie for me, but it’s easier to mash it up, I’ll repeat the steps:
1. Go to your Twitter page and click the “with friends” tab, scroll down and grab that RSS feed
eg. twitter.com/johnt/with_friends…here’s the feed twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/10120.rss
2. Go to GeoRSS Readers converter webpage and enter your feed in the box provided (if this box is populated just paste your URL over it)
This is the URL I got exploreourpla.net/georss/http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/10120.rss
3. Go to Google Maps and enter the URL into the search box
That didn’t work, but this URL did
ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/10120.rss
So here it is.
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Oops, I should have been much clearer in my instructions John, thanks for drawing my attention to that confusing point. I didn’t see the earlier link to the “Reuters World News on a Map” link and was, as you figured out, actually referring to the ws.geonames.org/etc URL further down in the page, not the exploreourpla.net one.
True, it’s a rather hit and miss mashup as it depends in large part on the uniqueness of the placenames people refer to and the punctuation and spelling. That why it might work better in a geographically specific type of application like @CorkProb on Twitter which is used to aggregate civic problems in County Cork in southern Ireland. My GeoRSS account shows how accurately that works (except for one miss-hit in South Africa!) - http://tinyurl.com/2f466h
Comment by James Corbett — June 13, 2007 @ 4:40 pm