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I'm supposed to make a maps twitter mashup by monday. anybody have a smart thought as to how to make it go?

My issue: you can get a feed of all tweets on a subject with the search API, but It doesn't seem like there is a way to get the search API to spit out user locations with the tweets.

is the best way to do it really to:

  • get the search feed,

  • look up each individual user's info for their location ,

  • cache the whole thing on your server (to avoid the non-search API's request limits)

  • load from my server every minute or so and zoom about in maps

  • try to make the whole thing look real-timey on the user side, even though it's all just cached on my server?

it seems so...clumsy! Isn't there a better way? Is there really no way to get search to return the "location" value? Also, is there a proper way to make the tweets com in in actual real time, not 'real-ish time'?

thanks for any toughts on this.