Where the Tweet is Santa?

The holidays are a busy time.  Presents to buy, friends and family to visit, meals to prepare.  It’s hard to keep track of everything.  If only there was a way to keep tabs on it all…

What if you could see what your friends were up to? or even people in different cities? countries?  What if you could even keep tabs on the man of the hour himself, Santa Claus?

This holiday, we at Relish have done just that with the help of Twitter and our friends at Tractor.  Together we made a site that pulls all of the holiday-themed “tweets” and plots them on a map so that you can see what people are up to and talking about.

Check it out here: http://www.relishinteractive.com/holiday/

holiday_tweets      

How it works

We search all the latest Twitter posts for a list of holiday keywords like: santa, holiday, christmas, new year, gifts, chimney, egg nog, etc.  Using the word ’santa’ in your tweet qualifies as a “Santa-sighting” will cause Santa Claus (the red dot on the map) to fly to your current location.      

So there you go, hours of fun for you this Holiday Season.  All the best from Relish Interactive.

by Paul on December 23, 2008

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