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Small World: a Marauder's Map for the people you follow on Twitter

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I remember way back when, you could find out on Twitter who was tweeting in your area. It was a pretty cool way to meet up with folks since the userbase was much smaller and a bit more focused.

I'd be a bit wary of this sort of thing now as its a "great" way to cyber-stalk folks :(

It only shows rough location as set on your profile, right?

I feel like it used to show stuff like "you're in downtown manhattan" or "you're in washington heights", but it has been a decade or so....

Ah, sorry I thought you were referring to this app's stalking potential

I tried looking that kind of thing up a few years ago. It was useless. Just bots spamming job postings, weather data, and other stuff like that for the city I’m in and any suburb within a large range.

You had to hunt to find a single tweet from an actual person.

It's funny, Twitter should know when a tweet comes from an third-party API connection or not. If that information exists, wouldn't it be a great way to heuristically exclude posts a bunch of bots (even if users who use e.g. Nitter would have posts excluded as well?)

If I understand this correctly, I think the definition of "friend" is too broad for this use case. It would be really helpful if I could only show folks who also follow me back, since they are much more likely to actually want to meet up.

Awesome!!

Additional things you could display under the map:

-Breakdown of which countries and cities have the most friends ("mutuals" in Twitter terminology)

-Time to travel to the top 5 nearest ones

-Top 5 furthest from you

-Average distance

Nice but it's not uncommon for people to have no declared location or just some cheeky statement. Anyhow I would like to run this but on individual tweets and see responses geo-mapped out might be more useful & a good dataviz compliment to Tweeview [1] by @edent

[1] www.tweeview.ml

Asking for access to my email address. Is it worth it?

It's okay if you follow enough people. I realized I follow like 6 people so it was disappointing.

I don't have a Twitter account so I can't really explore. So -- "Mischief managed."

Anyone have a screenshot to share?

Interesting choice to make it with Clojure. Any particular reason why?

Needs a screenshot

This is really neat!

Good for people who use Twitter to connect with likeminded folks rather than to get mad at politics

This is pretty nifty.

Too bad this is only useful to people who express politically correct views on Twitter and can therefore safely publish their location.

Example?

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