55sketch/tweet-map

A Node.JS Twitter Map

UK Twitter Map

Installation

• Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/55sketch/tweet-map.git
• Install dependencies npm install
• Run app node app
• Visit http://localhost:5000 in your browser

Notes

• The Twitter search API, even when requested by location, only returns a small percentage of tweets with geolocation. One possible solution would be to make the function recursive until there are 'X' amount of tweets in the geoTweets array, but performance could be an issue here.

With more time wishlist

• Mobile interface: Sidebar slideover etc
• Use of HTML5 location API for initial load

Libraries Used

• OAuth
• Node Twitter
• MapBox