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Just Landed – In 61 Hours

Nerd Alert! This is AWESOME.

“This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time….”

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It might be weird but this fascinates me.  Clearly, there’s something to be said with the growth of Twitter.  I know.  I’m a nerd sometimes.