New Twittervision Adds Local Capability

Our friend David Troy, creater of Twittervision, and host of the recently awesome SocialDevCamp East, has gone and added a cool little nugget to the Twittervision.  Whereas previouosly Twittervision showed us the tweets on a full map, we now have the ability to look a little more local.  He released Twittervision Local, for lask of a better description.  This link opens up a map of the local DC area and shows the tweets happening in the local DC area.

In my opinion, this is awesome.  The big map was cool, but I could gain no real value out of it, like the Twitter public timeline.  I dont think Twitter is good until you find that niche, which many times are people that are in the community around you.  This is where you get the most value out of Twitter.  Now the visual aid of the local Twittervision makes me aware of more people I would not have otherwise known about.  Sure I see some people I am following, but many more I am not.  I can click on their tweet and see what their all about and maybe meet them further enriching my experience.

David is a pioneer in the field.  At SocialDevCamp, he lead a great session about Location Based Services.  I was totally impressed by his depth of knowledge and how hard he is working to make the space better with initiatives like openlocation.org.

If you are not in the DC area, check out http://twittervision.com/local for a comprehensive list of other areas.