Although it may seem creepy to virtually stand outside of someone's home and read the tweets they are sending out over Twitter, that is the very public nature of social networking, an element that is brought to bear through Stweet, a clever mash-up between Twitter and Google's panoramic Street View mode. It grabs a random message from Twitter, looks up the geographic location of its sender and then displays the Tweet against a Street View image from that location. A drop-down menu on the upper right-hand corner lets you choose from among a selection of international cities that are currently featured in Google's Street View. You can see french Tweets from Paris, Japanese Tweets from Tokyo, and English Tweets from London, San Francisco, New York, and many more. Why is Popeye rushing off in the bottom right corner? Stweet's Paris-based designers like him.
To use Stweet with Canadian cities, simply change the url in your browser to include your city and country code like this:
http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/Vancouver,CA
or
http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/Edmonton,CA
The page will simply use a Google Maps image instead of a Street View one.
