I remember way back when, you could find out on Twitter who was tweeting in your area. It was a pretty cool way to meet up with folks since the userbase was much smaller and a bit more focused.<p>I'd be a bit wary of this sort of thing now as its a "great" way to cyber-stalk folks :(
If I understand this correctly, I think the definition of "friend" is too broad for this use case. It would be really helpful if I could only show folks who also follow me back, since they are much more likely to actually want to meet up.
Awesome!!<p>Additional things you could display under the map:<p>-Breakdown of which countries and cities have the most friends ("mutuals" in Twitter terminology)<p>-Time to travel to the top 5 nearest ones<p>-Top 5 furthest from you<p>-Average distance
Nice but it's not uncommon for people to have no declared location or just some cheeky statement. Anyhow I would like to run this but on individual tweets and see responses geo-mapped out might be more useful & a good dataviz compliment to Tweeview [1] by @edent<p>[1] www.tweeview.ml