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

72 points by devonzuegel 4y ago

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EZ-Cheeze 4y ago
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
someguydave 4y ago
Too bad this is only useful to people who express politically correct views on Twitter and can therefore safely publish their location.
- cr__ 4y ago
  Example?
umbula 4y ago
Asking for access to my email address. Is it worth it?
- enlyth 4y ago
  It's okay if you follow enough people. I realized I follow like 6 people so it was disappointing.
jimmySixDOF 4y ago
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
armagon 4y ago
This is pretty nifty.
DantesKite 4y ago
Interesting choice to make it with Clojure. Any particular reason why?
josegonzalez 4y ago
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 :(
- ajmurmann 4y ago
  It only shows rough location as set on your profile, right?
  - josegonzalez 4y ago
    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....
    - ajmurmann 4y ago
      Ah, sorry I thought you were referring to this app's stalking potential
- MBCook 4y ago
  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.
  - bordercases 4y ago
    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?)
ajmurmann 4y ago
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.
bboylen 4y ago
This is really neat! Good for people who use Twitter to connect with likeminded folks rather than to get mad at politics
raldi 4y ago
Needs a screenshot
wyldfire 4y ago
I don't have a Twitter account so I can't really explore. So -- "Mischief managed." Anyone have a screenshot to share?

72 points by devonzuegel 4y ago

deleted 4y ago

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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

someguydave 4y ago

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

cr__ 4y ago
Example?

umbula 4y ago

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

enlyth 4y ago
It's okay if you follow enough people. I realized I follow like 6 people so it was disappointing.

jimmySixDOF 4y ago

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

armagon 4y ago

This is pretty nifty.

DantesKite 4y ago

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

josegonzalez 4y ago

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 :(

ajmurmann 4y ago
It only shows rough location as set on your profile, right?
- josegonzalez 4y ago
  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....
  - ajmurmann 4y ago
    Ah, sorry I thought you were referring to this app's stalking potential
MBCook 4y ago
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.
- bordercases 4y ago
  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?)

ajmurmann 4y ago

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.

bboylen 4y ago

This is really neat! Good for people who use Twitter to connect with likeminded folks rather than to get mad at politics

raldi 4y ago

Needs a screenshot

wyldfire 4y ago

I don't have a Twitter account so I can't really explore. So -- "Mischief managed." Anyone have a screenshot to share?