Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

http://www.tweetweather.com

by aviel • 18 years ago

31 22 18 years ago

This showed up: "Homemade migas this morning; cold brewed coffee & client work the rest of the day"

How about you match only if at least two words are weather-related? Or at least 1 weather related + 1 location related, like "cold in new york."

aviel7• 18 years ago

Thanks! Yea it's definitely imperfect, but I'm limited by the functionality of the twitter search api, what i have been doing and what I can improve on is filtering out of common terms that involve weather related words, so for instance "ice cream", or in your case "cold brewed", which I am about to add to the exclusion list. granted this whole app has only about 15 hours of dev in it, so such a list is going to be FAR from perfect.

randomwalker2• 18 years ago

Ok. BTW, why are you using the twitter search API instead of Gnip?

iamdave• 18 years ago

I concur. There is definitely some room for improvement on the word filtering.

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Otherwise, I think this is an awesome idea. Keep it up.

anthonyrstevens• 18 years ago

Excellent initiative Aviel. I think it's a great demonstration of the future trends in Twitter mashups!

sanj• 18 years ago

Wow -- it figured out where I was much better than most systems.

Are you doing geolocation with IP? Or something else?

aviel7• 18 years ago

Just geolocation with ip.

alexkay2• 18 years ago

I'm in Sydney, asking for weather in Sydney, I don't want to see temperature Fahrenheits.

Other than that, a very nice idea and execution.

aviel7• 18 years ago

Good call. It really shouldn't be hard at all, i can query weather bug with a UnitType parameter depending on the location.

Thanks!

aviel7• 18 years ago

Unfortunately, due to the unreliability of the weather bug api, i've had to switch to the weather underground api which makes this much more difficult. Currently working on this.

alexkay2• 18 years ago

Well I guess it can be done easier. Currently, the only countries not using Celsius are United States and Belize. And you are already using GeoIP.

stanley• 18 years ago

I found it amusing that most of the tweets were by women.

josefresco• 18 years ago

Very cool, the ability to post weather via Twitter is something I'd like to add to my social weather startup: www.OtherWeather.com

sammyo• 18 years ago

Found my town from the ip address and then when I tested a post it appeared as fast as I could switch windows and reload.

andrewljohnson• 18 years ago

Great idea! Very useful and easy to ue.

zzzmarcus• 18 years ago

This rocks. You, or someone, could do a similar Twitter mashup for movie reviews - I just did a few searches for movies and the some of the short reviews are pretty entertaining.

It'd be even cooler (and much, much harder) to do some NLP on the reviews and try to give them a star rating based on your model.

ryanwaggoner2• 18 years ago

http://flixpulse.com/

iamwil• 18 years ago

How did you decide which twits to pick up? Did you just have a list of keywords that were weather related that you picked up? Or did you use some other method?

aviel7• 18 years ago

There is a whole ton of logic in there uses the current forecast, weather alerts, etc then determines based on keywords it finds what terms users might be talking about.

Unforunately weatherbug is struggling right now so it's not working as good as it should be. I'm switching to weather underground as we speak.

Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

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