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The Word on the Tweet

December 9th, 2008 by Chris Mueller

We recently built a tool to help us understand what people were saying at a specific location. It’s a first draft (beta) version. Take a look:

Launch The Word on the Tweet

We combined a Google Map with the Twitter API to discover words that were common to a place. When you click on the map, we pull the top 40-50 words from Twitter within a 25-50 mile radius. The service works best in English.

Some interesting trends from the past couple of days:

  • San Diego: Jet, F18, crash
  • Kansas City: Snow
  • San Francisco: Confessions
  • Washington DC: Obama, Blagojevich
  • Dublin: Beef, pork
  • Liverpool: Xbox, dashboard
  • Baghdad: Vacation

What can you discover? Feel free to send us your comments about The Word on the Tweet.

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2 Responses to “The Word on the Tweet”

  1. Henri Willox Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 12:44 am

    A nice cool mashup ! Congratulation guys :o)

    Greetings from Africa
    Henri Willox

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