On Twittervision, maps turn into social venues. Twittervision serves up real-time tweets from all over the world on a map. You can search twitterers by area code, look at tweets on a 3D earth map, check out the latest uploads from Flickr and from Youtube.



Twittervision is more than a fun gadget. I find the experience of attributing a place to a tweet extremely enriching. People waking up in Paris, looking for booze in Detroit, watching the sunset in Sydney… As of today, I know a lot of people who are still confused with Twitter. That is because Twitter is more of a back-end engine serving SMS than it is a social portal. There is no real structure or context around it: we can still see the central pillar of this soon-to-become SMS juggernaut.

Through maps, Twittervision adds a new dimension to the short-messaging experience. The same way a wine is best defined by its place of origin, 140 characters can say so much more when geographically contextualized.

The creepy thought that first came to mind was, it is officially possible to fly over the world and read people’s thoughts in real time. Tell that to your grandparents and they will think you’ve just lost your mind. On the other hand, maps compensate the space distortion effect of the Web. It provides a visual system to define my position relatively to those of others. Psychologically speaking, having reliable spatial marks is crucial for a person’s proprioception.

I don’t mean to get all analytical on Twittervision, I just wanted to share that georss is a really awesome component of our new social habits.

Twitter is now on a map, and Click2Map is on Twitter: Anybody interested in online maps, let’s mingle!

http://twitter.com/click2map