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Tuesday
Feb052008

Twitter and Google mash it up for Super Tuesday

twitter_googlemaps1.jpgThis was too cool not to mention. Google and Twitter have teamed up to create a mashup that shows Twitters related to the election and the locations they are coming from. Twitters that use certain keywords (i.e. vote, McCain, election) automatically appear on the map. It's really interesting (mesmerizing actually) to gauge the pulse of the voters across the country, and it sure beats the five rotating voter quotes at NYTimes.com.

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