Show HN: Live map of “good morning/night” tweets

If you'd like to make it show tweets on different topics you can 'remix' it here https://glitch.com/edit/#!/wakingandsleeping-globe .

In app.js you just need to change the following to the terms you would like:

  const morning = ["Good morning", "Buenas dias", "صباح الخير", "সুপ্রভাত", "शुभ प्रभात", "Доброе утро", "Bom Dia", "おはようございます", "Guten Morgen", "Sugeng enjang", "좋은 아침", "Bon matin", "Günaydın", "Chào buổi sáng", "శుభోదయం", "शुभ प्रभात", "காலை வணக்கம்", "Buongiorno", "صبح بخیر", "સુપ્રભાત", "Dzień dobry", "Доброго ранку", "സുപ്രഭാതം", "ಶುಭೋದಯ"];

You will need to have your own twitter access keys though, which you add to the env file.

Dobranoc

Related: WebGL globe showing live Wikipedia edits https://umaar.com/globe/

Glitch is an amazing tool. Before the recent changes they made in terms of projects sleeping, I have run a collection of telegram bots [1] servicing a few thousand telegram groups / millions of users on there for free, with minimal downtime over a 2 year period. I've had to switch to the paid plan now, but the ease in getting a project live on the internet with glitch is second to none.

[1] http://telegrambotcollection.glitch.me/ (and even this website is hosted on glitch)

Another interesting twitter related project: http://alltheminutes.com/

This actually reminds me of the early days of twitter, when people would do this more often in my feed. Don't really see it anymore, but I guess it still happens in more niche circles!

Some kind of local time zone vertical line overlay option might be a nice addition.

Why I thought about this: I'm using a ~12 year old monitor that occasionally has a broken column of pixels about 2/3 of the whole monitor width away from the left edge and thought it was trying to align with the ever-moving map on the site. It confused me why the actual location wasn't lining up until I realized it was my monitor's fault.

See also https://twitter.com/soltempore

I love the idea. I think it would be a really cool idea for some IoT picture frame.

I think a 2D map would be more effective.

I think this is an interesting example of how what you post publicly can indirectly give away information, but then again, I suspect people wouldn't be tweeting such things if they wanted their (even approximate) locations to remain private.

Tweet thread with timelapse from running it over night: https://twitter.com/Omar4ur/status/1315325135990202369

Interesting how 'night' seems to start well after sunset, at least right now in the Northern Hemisphere. 'Morning', however, seems to be happening more at sunrise.

Dude, add the Greek versions of good morning and goodnight. I was wondering why my country was empty in a vast field of good mornings.

@OmarShehata - do you use the Twitter API to get this data? Is it a simple process to get access?

hmmm, doesn't seem to work in firefox for me?

Realy cool though!

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I like this a lot

Clearly all these tweets are fake and added by Twitter who are part of the conspiracy to make people believe the Earth isn't flat. /s

Please stop using WebGL without a fallback... Plenty of devices don't support it or immediately crash...