burritos ’round the world: a @bingtmaps joint

One of the projects I’ve been working on at Microsoft FUSE Labs over the past few months is Bing Twitter Maps – showing geolocated tweets as they happen. (It’s one of the applications inside the beta versoin of a new Bing Maps, which you should check out, if you haven’t already). We’ve just released a new version of Twitter Maps that includes the ability to embed a custom Twitter map into your site.

Just like with the main site, there are all sorts of options – your map can be scoped to a @user or keyword, and show results from anywhere, or keep the viewport fixed on a location. The Tweets shown will always be the most recent that match your criteria. If at anypoint someone viewing the embed badge gets sufficiently intrigued to check out more about a location, @user or keyword, clicking any of those buttons links to the full experience at Bing maps. The embedded map will show Silverlight (cooler) if it’s installed, otherwise it will show a JavaScript version.

Being a California kid, who has since been dragged voluntarily moved elsewhere, I’m always curious to see if there’s anywhere in the world that can match the San Francisco Burrito. So here’s a Bing Twitter Map showing the most recent Tweets containing “burrito” anywhere in the world, as part of that elusive (and probably futile) quest.

Here’s the iframe code for this embed:

<iframe src="http://www.bing.com/twitter/maps/embed?version=1.0&amp;eid=785005709&ampkeyword=burrito" frameborder="0" height="350" width="590" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Check out http://bing.com/twitter/maps and the embed wizard will help you make your own map chock full o’ Tweets!

update!: pitchfork + coachella + twitter + bing = hipsters on a map! pitchfork, the quintessential indie-rock hispter music blog, has (of course) a site up following coachella, the quintessential indie-rock hipster music festival. to give their readers a chance to follow the action live, they used the bing twitter maps embed functionality to provide a live geo-stream of all the action. nice! (looks like Beyonce gave a surprise performance w/ Jay-Z?)