Bing Twitter maps

Posted April 4th, 2010 in Labs by Mario Seijo

Bing maps recently added the ability to add custom Twitter feeds into their maps, it’s called Bing Twitter maps. The map uses Silverlight 3 by default, but the nice part about it is this: If you don’t have Silverlight installed, the map falls back to plain Javascript, which is recognized by all web browsers.  I took Microsoft up on their offer and plugged my Twitter feed into their maps.  The code is super easy to implement and add to your own site.

HTML code:

<iframe src=”http://www.bing.com/twitter/maps/embed?version=1.0&eid=769766769&user=exposedelements” width=”600″ height=”400″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″></iframe>

This demo shows my Twitter feed and Bing maps.

How about you?

I’d love to hear from you if you are using the Bing maps API; go ahead and post your links in the comments section.

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