From the Bing Blog:
We’ve just released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery. NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets you care about. And, WOW, it’s super easy.
Here is a sample with Tweets from SXSW
You can do this in four easy steps:
- Select the map location either fixed (centered on a specific point) or anywhere (moves the map as the Tweets come in).
- Specify the dimensions of your map (height and width).
- Add search filters. These will be carried into the embed form if you’ve specified them to filter only tweets that meet your search criteria.
- Copy/paste HTML into your web page.
Bah- it’s a cheap ploy to get me to update my SilverBlight install. No thanks!
Comment by Rian (2 comments) — March 16, 2010 @ 6:14 pm
Yea you could be right but its still cool.
Comment by Mike (2430 comments) — March 16, 2010 @ 7:09 pm
Its really cool.
I wish if we could type a message in the re tweet pop up instead of going to twitter site.
thanks
Comment by ELF (2 comments) — March 16, 2010 @ 11:19 pm
Cool functionality! Thanks.
Comment by Jess (2 comments) — March 17, 2010 @ 5:36 am
This integration is a cool concept. I don’t know how much it can actually increase business but the idea is cool. I think it would be best used by posting specials or deals on a twitter account. That way when someone types in the business they can see an immediate special
Comment by josh (8 comments) — March 19, 2010 @ 6:40 pm