The home of twibble » Google Earth http://www.twibble.de a location aware twitter client for Mac OS, Windows, Mobile Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:49:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Olympic Games coverage by BBC Sport using twibble http://www.twibble.de/2008/08/11/olympic-games-coverage-by-bbc-sport-using-twibble/ http://www.twibble.de/2008/08/11/olympic-games-coverage-by-bbc-sport-using-twibble/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:16:47 +0000 thilo http://www.twibble.de/2008/08/11/olympic-games-coverage-by-bbc-sport-using-twibble/ Matt of BBC Sport is using twibble mobile to tweet the latests and greatest of the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. He is even sending his GPS coordinates along with his tweets! You can exactly see where he is in a map. This is how it look likes in Google Maps (click on the map to open Google Maps):
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Even more impressive are Matt’s tweets in Google Earth. Add ‘http://api.twibble.de/statuses/user_timeline/bbcsport_matt.kml’ as a network link and click on a tweet to fly to China.

Or you can open twibble mobile on your phone and use the ‘Show in map’ function. Just follow @bbcsports_matt (http://twitter.com/bbcsport_matt).

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