Tweet Mapper in the App Store

April 20th, 2010 Posted by: Collin - posted under:Articles

I recently decided to look into the Stream API that is provided by Twitter. Though this API, you can specify a request with certain parameters and be stream tweets as they are posted live. I decided to make my first iPad app using it called Tweet Mapper. Tweet Mapper is meant to be a window into the live world of Twitter. It doesn’t require a Twitter account to use and is free in the store. The app looks at 10 major cities; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Miami, Barcelona, London, Tokyo, Rome and Mexico City.

Any time a tweet is posted in one of those cities with a geotag the tweet is posted on the map. If the tweet has a URL included in it, a detail disclosure option is shown to bring up the web page. I will be doing posts on how I accomplished this using NSURLConnection in a post very soon. Thanks for the support!

  • christian

    congrats on the app. it looks cool, will download it when I get an iPad. any plans on adding more cities?

  • branon

    yea if you plan on adding new cities (Austin, San Marcos, Bastrop and Lockhart TX) would make me get the app :P

    ahh good to see fun lil things poking their heads out :)

  • Jack

    nice app i will see if it works in uk,

    just a suggestion it would look alot better without the gloss and bevel on the logos.

  • Jiyeon

    I just installed the app. It is cool~! Hope you add Seoul :)

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