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
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 :(
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.
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?)
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.
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-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
[1] www.tweeview.ml
I'd be a bit wary of this sort of thing now as its a "great" way to cyber-stalk folks :(
You had to hunt to find a single tweet from an actual person.
Good for people who use Twitter to connect with likeminded folks rather than to get mad at politics
Anyone have a screenshot to share?