almost.at - Following People at Real-World Events in Real-Time

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With its real-time search and growing hordes of users, Twitter has become one of the best ways to stay up to date on current events and breaking news (assuming of course, its search function is actually working). But one of the conventions Twitter users have adopted to associate their tweets with... more

Reviewed by eisham Jun 01, 05:14pm ( 5 reviews ) • almost.at

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Rated by SoundsLike on Jun 14, 4:49pm

Watch real-time reporting from the social media by aggregating keyword content from YouTube, Twitter, and Flickr.
Reviewed by messel on Jun 02, 3:01am

Wonderful tool for tracking events in real time. Thanks David for putting this beauty together.
Rated by a11acce55 on Jun 01, 10:08pm

Go to events in real time with Twitter-like chat.
Rated by Mohiul on Jun 01, 7:17pm

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Rated by eisham on Jun 01, 5:14pm

With its real-time search and growing hordes of users, Twitter has become one of the best ways to stay up to date on current events and breaking news (assuming of course, its search function is actually working). But one of the conventions Twitter users have adopted to associate their tweets with a certain event -- the hash tag -- can be an incredibly inefficient way to spread what's actually going on. This is because Twitter users have grown accustomed to tagging any tweet somehow related to an event with its corresponding hashtag, even when they aren't actually attending. This helps spur conversation, but it becomes much harder to weed out the news from the noise, and occasionally leads to propagation of false information. Almost.at, a very slick web application built by freelance iPhone developer David Cann, may be the answer to this problem.

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