Twitter tracker goes twotspotting Geome uses the location information already attached to many tweets to provide a geocentric view of twitter, enabling you to find out who's twittering locally, and avoid them. It's just the kind of service that's supposed to be enabled by Twitter's new location API. But given that many mobile clients - and the web service - …
"Quite why one would want to do this remains a mystery"
Come on, you know why.
Who amongst us has not spent days, weeks or even months in coding something that has no commercial application, interests nobody but themselves and could have been done in ten minutes with a spreadsheet?
I know I have.
"Quite why one would want to do this remains a mystery, unless you're planning on linking it to the Ground Guidance sat-nav product for route planning specifically designed to avoid the twitter of tiny thumbs."
I'm planning to link it in to my guided missile system and take out each twat in turn.
Presumably to allow the targeting of web 2.0 powered Twitterhawk missiles.
Anyway, I thought Twitter was utterly pointless drivel until I discovered The Longest Poem In The World ( http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ ) now I think it is pointless but often hilarious *rhyming* drivel...
All those tags on peoples names that say "follow me on twitter" needed an app that allows you to do the opposite.
An app that detects tweets <as they happen>, alerts you and plans a route around the location of that signal would improve daily life.
Even better would be a reverse lookup and stay active tool that tracks the signal location and actively blocks it. Permanently.
Let's face it, if you can say it in 140 characters it wasn't that important was it?
Well firstly I'd want to know where, I wouldn't want to run towards him by accident now would I?
Running is stupid unless you can outrun a bullet. "Duck" might be a better shout.
Loud noises and sudden movements are stupid when someone has a gun.
It's a bit more likely you'd be twittering about the giant poo you'd just had after a particularly tasty Big Mac that you'd probably made yourself. Sorry but I like my information in conversation sized pieces about relevant subjects. Twitter is just massive fail for me but each to their own.
> It's a bit more likely you'd be twittering about the giant poo you'd just had after a particularly tasty Big Mac
As a user of twitter I have never seen a tweet like this. Sure hate twitter - it is not for everyone but if you wish to explain why you hate it rather than make shit up post the real reason.
You hate twitter as it is overhyped. See not so hard.
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