One of the interesting part with Twitter is its worldwide use. On my Twitter, I usually get European twitts at the end of the afternoon, and South-American twitts during the night.
Comparing my twitting habits with those of my friends, each one of us could have a twitting timezone, that we’ll be surely different even if you live in the same ‘real’ timezone.
Here is a screenshot of what could be the result:
It could be easily done using the API, unfortunatly, Twitter reduce the API use to one request per minute, so it’ll take one hour to build such a timezone with all your 60 friends… but I’m pretty sure someone will have fun to do something like this soon.


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November 11, 2007 at 3:43 pm
pqs
you could do this, couldn’t you?
November 11, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Alx
Yes, and still looking for the best way to queue twitter api request (limited to 1 per minute).
For time-representation, it might be better to use something like this: http://captaindan.org/sw/Sol/