I remember way back when, you could find out on Twitter who was tweeting in your area. It was a pretty cool way to meet up with folks since the userbase was much smaller and a bit more focused.
I'd be a bit wary of this sort of thing now as its a "great" way to cyber-stalk folks :(
I tried looking that kind of thing up a few years ago. It was useless. Just bots spamming job postings, weather data, and other stuff like that for the city I’m in and any suburb within a large range.
You had to hunt to find a single tweet from an actual person.
It's funny, Twitter should know when a tweet comes from an third-party API connection or not. If that information exists, wouldn't it be a great way to heuristically exclude posts a bunch of bots (even if users who use e.g. Nitter would have posts excluded as well?)
If I understand this correctly, I think the definition of "friend" is too broad for this use case. It would be really helpful if I could only show folks who also follow me back, since they are much more likely to actually want to meet up.
Nice but it's not uncommon for people to have no declared location or just some cheeky statement. Anyhow I would like to run this but on individual tweets and see responses geo-mapped out might be more useful & a good dataviz compliment to Tweeview [1] by @edent
I'd be a bit wary of this sort of thing now as its a "great" way to cyber-stalk folks :(