UK Snow — Time Lapse
This is essentially the same concept as Ben Marsh's #uksnow map, except that this map animates tweets over time.
You can read the actual tweets by clicking on any of the blue snow flakes. And if you want your own tweet to appear on the map, tweet something like;
It's really started to #uksnow here and I hope I don't die in an avalanche! BS41 5/10
By default the last 1000 tweets are loaded, however you can also activate the full archive (began 31st December 2009), careful though, it's over 8 MB and uses a lot of resources when it runs. For best results run this site in Google Chrome.
Enjoy!
Time Window — this controls approximately the period of time that each frame of the animation is displaying. So a small 1 minute window will only ever show a few tweets at once, where as a 60 minute window will show a lot.
Delay — this is basically just how fast the animation runs. Negative values work differently by actually dropping tweets in order to find more speed per cycle.
Tweet No. — This is literally the current tweet in the animation.
Oh Yeah — Start and Stop, uh, start and stop the animation :)
Of course kudos and credit to Ben Marsh for the whole #uksnow map idea in the first place.
I must also thank Jos Buivenga (exljbris) for the font (Fontin) used on this site (for the those of you with @font-face enabled browsers).
If you like what I've done here, then please spread some link love for me too. You might also like to follow me on twitter — @twombh and visit my website.