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I’ve built a Twitter bot around these timelapses a while ago – just updated to use the newly released data set: https://twitter.com/earthacrosstime

You can take a look at the source code here if you’re interested: https://github.com/doersino/earthacrosstime

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feedback - the bot might be a bit more compelling if it reported the city it is focusing on. hard to tell.

There's reverse geocoding data at the end of each video – and most of the time, it picks spots in the middle of nowhere, which is difficult to reverse geocode in a way that's useful, so I don't show this information more prominently.

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