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Very neat.

How often are the images pulled? Could they be sorted by date? It would be interesting to see the flow of pictures in real time during specific events.

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I've had this idea for ages, but other than Twitter (Geus was working on popped.at, but it seems to be down again) I was told that real time was not possible with the other services. If Buetol wants this to have real value then real-time PLUS being able to define a location by polygon or radius for an accurate stream is required.

I don't think it's required (I'm happy with the current state and happily using it), but, yeah, would definitely be awesome.

Polygon/radius is more of a problem interface-wise. For now I'm trying to have the maximum density of pictures (so you always find relevant things) and I think that's what people are looking for.

It's pulled directly from each API (and it's why it take a lot of time often, I do it synchronously).

I want to add sorting and real time in the future (especially for things like concerts, would be so cool). For now I keep adding APIs, I'm trying to add Facebook/Twitter/Vine for now.

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