This site and application is not created by Twitter.

 Fine Print

We are not storing any passwords. The usernames and passwords are fed to Twitter and used for authentication. We do not store them so you will have to enter them each time you make a tweet.

This is a beta application that is using the twitter.com api. If you don't understand the last sentence you might not want to read further.

This page and this application is not using a database. Period. We are not storing any messages or gathering any information via your inputs. We are using the google map geocoding api to figure out the coordinates for the address that you enter. We are then using the twitter api to update your status (via curl), including the new coordinates if any are found. It is up to you to decide what to do with the results.

If you use this application and your computer breaks or your twitter account gets blown up, it is not our fault!

 What to do with this?

Registered Beer Mapping Project users can add their Twitter feed usernumber to their forums profile and then all Twitter updates will appear as the user's signature in the forums and on your profile. Read more about this here.

If you are interested in using the coordinates in other places:
If and you know how to aggregate an rss feed into an html page and you know how to manipulate a string, I believe you can figure out what to do with this.

Basically for some simple suggestions with pseudo code you would do something like this:

• Grab the twitter feed using php and an rss parsing package (we suggest simplepie)
• Once you have the feed, grab the first, most recent item.
• Explode the description on the "|" (bar) character and take the second chunk of the array that will contain the coordinates.
• At this point you can easily create a google maps link using the resulting coordinates exactly the way they are. (something like: 49.96,-84.79)
• Or you could explode them further based on the comma character. The first chunk would be latitude and the second is longitude.

I have an example of my own feed that is often containing coordinates here.