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"Fresh Logic Studios has created a Twitter mashup with Microsoft's Virtual Earth to give you Twitter Atlas, a bird's eye view of the Twitter world.\nThe mashup has utilized two very popular APIs to bring you this service, and from what we can see, it's pretty cool.  The Twitter Atlas has listed a public time line RSS to show real time updates from Twitter on their map.  Since I first checked in this morning, about another 200 updates have been added, so there are more red dots on the map for me to explore.  Twitter Atlas still has a heavy focus on the map aspects of their service, so while you may not be able to go directly to a user's Twitter page, you can find out about their city or get driving directions.  The page will automatically update with the incoming Twitter feed, so the Atlas is rather dynamic in this regard.\nIt would be nice to have a bit more integration with Twitter; perhaps a default link to a user's Twitter profile in addition to the website they add along with their personal website.  Twitter Atlas would also provide much more value if I had the option to see just my friends' locations and updates.  I'm sure with the increasing popularity of Twitter, and with map mashups for both Microsoft and Google, we'll see many more fun things to do with blogging and location-marking in the future.\nSee also Twitter Earth for another dynamic blog-map mashup.\nMashable's Twitter account is here.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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