Twitter Friends Map lets you view the people you follow on a Google Map. Once you connect the map with your Twitter account you can view the locations of all the people you follow on Twitter.
The map includes a novel marker clustering solution. Clusters of your friends are shown by a number within a white circle marker. If you mouse-over the marker it expands to display the profile pictures of your friends.
If you like the map or the marker clustering solution you can view the code on gihub.
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When I did this it showed that the council road gritting department in Somerset, England, is apparently in California.
Some of the results are surprising, but I don't think they are necessarily incorrect. I would feel differently if I had seen anything totally anomalous e.g. a Somerset, England council road gritting dept appearing in California.
I did find that a few of my Twitter friends were located in different countries than I thought, or more commonly, used proxy servers or similar for better internet connectivity. No harm done in either case.
Thank you for this post, Google Maps Mania! I really enjoyed using it to map my Twitter friends...wish I had seen it sooner.
Fun. I would have liked to see the marks sized by how much we actually interact (favourites, RT's, mentions) . But thanks to the developer/s anyhow.
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