Visualizing Traveling Tweets

by Ryan Lane on July 1, 2009

Just Landed – 36 Hours from blprnt on Vimeo.

This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.

This was made using Processing, which I’m a huge fan of.

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  • Digg
  • Twitter
  • FriendFeed
  • Posterous
  • del.icio.us
  • TwitThis
  • Live
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • email

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