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June 14, 2009 9:57 AM

Can you tweet location-specific events onto a map? Help! I'm a twitter newbie.

Say a couple of local artists are looking to put up their installations in various locations over the next couple of weeks. I'd like to make a map that can be easily updated that would include a marker for each new installation.

Does a twitter application exist for this? Ideally, the artist would notify me that the installation is up. I would then tweet the location, a picture of the installation and a small info blurb onto a map. I could then put the map onto a website or something and have it linked in one of my tweets so that the public can access it.

I know that I could make information markers for each event on google maps but using twitter just seems so much faster. If no twitter application exists for my purposes, do you know of a clean and easy way to create a map like this and embed it into a web page (besides google maps...although I don't know how to save and embed a google map onto a web page anyhow)?

Thank you!

posted by bluelight to Technology (2 answers total)

It seems like there ought to be some way to do what you want using Brightkite. I know you can publish to Twitter from Brightkite because I have friends who tweet their location that way.
posted by immlass at 10:51 AM on June 14, 2009

Try Loopt. I've never used them, but a friend does, and from a cursory scan of their website, it seems that this service will do most of what you're asking for: it publishes your location, with a short blurb, on a map, and integrates with Twitter. Their example pictures suggest that you can also publish a photo of the location, but if not, you could use another Twitter app for that; the same friend used TwitPic (though, once again, I haven't used it myself).
posted by AnimalKing at 11:12 AM on June 14, 2009