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Geolocate Now With Twitter, Using Simple Search

While we’re waiting for Twitter’s official geolocation platform, how about this ad hoc method. Pick a famous location, stick “at” in front of it, and use Twitter search.

Tweets from Disneyland

Amber Case suggested Disneyland. Go ahead and try it out. I found that Graceland and Yellowstone have good results, too.

We’ll be able to do more interesting things when we have latitude and longitude. In the meantime, this is a fun, simple way to get a glimpse of what’s going on at popular vacation destinations.

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