Stweet

Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama.

Stweet is an artistic project dealing with the appropriation of geographical, photographic and real-time data from the Web.

It offers a real new way enriched representation of information created on internet by two major players of the web, Twitter and Google.

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I toyed around with it and entered a Dallas location and this area around SMU popped up.

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Can you tell the temperature by listening to the chirping of a cricket?

Yes!

The frequency of chirping varies according to temperature. To get a rough estimate of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37. The number you get will be an approximation of the outside temperature.

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