Putting Silverlight tweets on the map

Twitter Maps application was updated last night to allow embedding custom Twitter maps on web sites. The process of creating a custom Twitter map is fairly easy, these are the steps for creating a Silverlight tweets map.:

1. Go to the Bing Maps site, click on the MAP APPS button and select the Twitter Maps application:

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The Twitter Maps application will open, showing you the location of the most recent tweets in your area.

2. Click on the plus sign on the left side to open the Search Filters panel:

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3. Type “Silverlight” into the keywords field and click Submit:

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4. Click the Embed in your site button, found at the bottom of the left column:

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The embedding dialog window will show up.

5. Select Anywhere for the Map Location and check that the Current Filters is set to “Silverlight”:

image6. Copy the provided HTML code into your site.

And this is how this Silverlight Twitter map looks like:



tweetmeme_url = 'http://tozon.info/blog/post/2010/03/13/Putting-Silverlight-tweets-on-the-map.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'andrejt';
Avtor: Anonymous, objavljeno na portalu SloDug.si (Arhiv)

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