Find a Tweeter

By mike@mike-miles.com

You might of noticed that I’ve been absent from my blog for a while, well I’ve been very busy.  But I’m aback, and hopefully I’ll have some free time to blog more frequently.  Ok onto the nitty gritty.

I’ve been spending my free time (the little I’ve had these past few months) working with my pal Josh Milane (www.mittechnical.com) on a twitter website (Which I think is very cool). He’s the brains and I’m the brawn (a.k.a the developer). It’s agreat concept that we’re still improving, but it is good enough where I can blog about it.

The site is www.findAtweeter.com .  The site allows you to find tweeters near you (or any location) and mashes it with google maps so that you can see where the tweets are coming from.

findatweeter

It’s built on using the twitter REST API (search API), as well as the google maps API.  It’s a great tool if you want to see if any tweeters are interested in the same things as you. We tried to keep the interface as simple as possible, so its easy to search for a variety of tweets, and share those results.

findatweeter search

You might of noticed in that last picture a checkbox for ‘events’. Twitter Events are something we came up with for findatweeter.  on findatweeter you can create ‘Twitter Events’, eassentially they are tweets that tell twitter about an event thata going on.  For example you might want to create a twitter event for an upcoming party, or convention.  Theres alot of uses.

twitter event

Whats great is that findatweeter will post the twitter event to your twitter timeline, so that all your followers can see it.  Again, plenty of uses that as I programmer I’m unable to come up with (hence Joshs envolvment in the project).

You can also tweet directly to your twitter account from findatweeter.

Currently www.findatweeter.com is at version 1.5 .  I’m working on some minor bug fixes, and looking into using Oauth, so that it can be a registered twitter application. Take a look, some feedback on findatweeter would be great.

Edit: wow, I just noticed i used the word findatweeter alot in this post.