I came here hoping there was a fix to the twitter feed problem, it is very frustrating for me. What I have seen from my own little bit of research is that while twitter is an amazing tool for capturing information for a specific microsecond of time and place, getting people to geolocate their tweets is a lot harder than one might imagine. The recent snow event in Seattle had local twitter folks diligently hashtagging consistently and prolifically, but since the majority do not turn on their location services, the tweets are of little use. Folks who upload their photos to a photosharing site like flickr via their mobile device, have the option of turning on location by each image. The same thing goes with the web based upload. These pictures are more carefully located and error checked by the user, not the consumer of the location based service. As a person who is looking at the use of twitter streams to validate and monitor weather events, I am slowly realizing that the common twitter user output is better for analyzing general trends (tsunamis are bad), but not for on the ground validation (oh my god, look at the wave).
Sigh.
I wonder if Esri is interested in pulling in instagram locations soon, that seems to be the hottest app out there today.
nazila
