A Twittering, Flickring World
May 16th, 2008Here’s a really neat way to visualize our world in Real Time. twittervision takes the text-messages posted on twitter, and shows them on a google map as they are being posted. Watching this application with the “3D View” turned on, I was able to watch Californians planning their night as I was turning in to bed, Japanese waking up with positive affirmations about the upcoming day, and Chinese twitters that I couldn’t read at all. : )
Check it out:
 Twittervision (Click on 3D View for this display) |
There’s also Flickrvision, which provides the same application, but shows you Flickr Photos as they are being uploaded all over the world in real time:
 Flickrvision |
You read Japanese?
Ha! Ha! No. But the Japanese post many twitters in English. : )