UUorld

We recently built a tool to help us understand what people were saying at a specific location. It’s a first draft (beta) version. Take a look:

Launch The Word on the Tweet

We combined a Google Map with the Twitter API to discover words that were common to a place. When you click on the map, we pull the top 40-50 words from Twitter within a 25-50 mile radius. The service works best in English.

Some interesting trends from the past couple of days:

• San Diego: Jet, F18, crash
• Kansas City: Snow
• San Francisco: Confessions
• Washington DC: Obama, Blagojevich
• Dublin: Beef, pork
• Liverpool: Xbox, dashboard
• Baghdad: Vacation

What can you discover? Feel free to send us your comments about The Word on the Tweet.

UUorld’s networking capabilities are limited inside some networks that use proxy servers. If your network uses a proxy, you will likely see a blank page when you click “Browse Stats”.

We will be releasing a new version soon with the proxy issues resolved. If you would like to be emailed when we update this issue, please contact us.