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.