TwitterWhere: Get tweets by geographic location
It’s Twitter geography day, today, on Silicon Florist. First, my post on Portland Twitter types. Now, something even cooler.
Portland-based interactive developer Matt King has announced the release of TwitterWhere, a tool for listening to Twitter users in your backyard. Or up to 50 miles away from your backyard. Or in someone else’s backyard. Or… Well, you get the picture.
At first blush, TwitterWhere is exactly the type of tool for which people like me—who are looking to keep tabs on the local scene—have been waiting. (In fact, it could easily make me obsolete.)
TwitterWhere lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include, and hit the button. You’ll instantly get URLs to add to your RSS reader.
I just grabbed the Portland feed and it appears to be pulling those more hip airport-call-sign-oriented types using PDX, as well.
This looks very promising.
For more coverage of TwitterWhere, see Read/Write Web and Mashable.
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From Brooks Jordan on October 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
That’s very cool. I just subscribed to Manhattan with a 5-mile radius as well as Portland.
From Usersky Daily News Network » TwitterWhere Tracks Tweets from Any Location, Like San Diego on October 24th, 2007 at 5:31 am
[…] King, co-founder of the happy-hour geo-locator Unthirsty, and first coverage of the service was on Silicon Florist - a blog that covers the tech community in the hotbed of innovation that I just happen to live in, […]
From Justin Kistner on October 24th, 2007 at 8:20 am
This is a pretty sweet tool! Go Matt!
From Matt King on October 24th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Thanks for the write up! I love the geoweb, and giving people the option to be a little more geo-centric on a service like Twitter goes to show that people are interested in what’s happening with people around them.
The name TwitterWhere was just something I came up with in 30 seconds of brainstorming, and I didn’t even think to check twitterwhere.com, but apparently someone has another mashup there that lets you update your location on Twitter. Not quite the same, but I hope I didn’t step on any toes by choosing that name…hehe.
From » TwitterWhere releases BETA Adobe AIR application - Silicon Florist on October 26th, 2007 at 9:25 am
[…] Announced just days ago, Portland-based Matt King’s TwitterWhere has been a runaway hit with the Twitter crowd, to say the least. […]
From Web Things Considered » Portland Web 2.0 update on October 27th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
[…] Twitter activity for a given location, making it easy find local breaking news and other Tweeters. (Silicon Florist and Read/Write Web […]
From Finding Florist on January 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 am
Well, there are lot of way you can get connected with yoru friends and this new featgures from Twitter really makes things more easier
From Molly on February 13th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Pretty cool