Like weaksauce suggested, some sort of auto-detection (although build an override too) would be a good start. A simple addition would be to make links clickable

Like weaksauce suggested, some sort of auto-detection (although build an override too) would be a good start. A simple addition would be to make links clickable. You could look into overlaying tweets onto a Google/Live Earth map (although this would only be useful for those tweeted from a phone with geolocational data).