Augmented reality Twitter 360 app geolocates your friends by their tweets

We're going to start off by stating unequivocally that we think this is a bad, bad idea. The Twitter 360 app, just launched by Presselite, is an augmented reality app for your iPhone 3GS which enables you to track your friends by the geolocation of their tweets. The app makes use of the iPhone 3GS's compass to locate the tweeter, then reports back on their location. Now -- if, like us, you want to be able to tweet about the rocking party you're at on a Friday night when you're actually sitting on the couch watching Mama's Family -- don't worry: you can opt out of the geolocation feature. The Twitter 360 app, sure to be a resounding success with creeps the world over, is available now in the iTunes store for $2.99. Check out a video demonstration of it after the break.

[southern78 Posted Dec 2nd 2009 7:40PM]

Whats the deal with people wanting to know what is going on to the smallest detail in all their friend's lives and know exactly where they are at all times. Maybe I am starting to become mildly antisocial but its as all this new social networking and communication services are becoming more intrusive.

Err..sorry if that came off as grouchy

[Needsahaircut Posted Dec 2nd 2009 7:49PM]

@southern78

So I heard you went poop 3 times today!

[Mr Oos Posted Dec 2nd 2009 7:51PM]

@southern78

No I'm right there with you. People, especially young people, are starting to spend so much time trying to keep up with every tiny detail in everyone else's life that they're becoming incredibly unproductive.

I definitely think twitter has some valid usefulness, but it, like so many other "social communication" tools out there, is still used primarily for ridiculous updates of trivial anecdotal nonsense

How's that for grouchy?

[WSZ Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:32PM]

@Mr Oos

You're bang on dude. Attention and focus is going to suffer with all this hyper-connectivity. I know some people that can't even be bothered to read two sentences, exclaiming it's too much too read...

Everything is short and pointless. Twitter is nothing more than a beacon for the mindless. "I just hate a big ass burger, ugh." "My sister lolz at milk commercials. lol"

Anything possibly meaningful in a conversation is simply unattainable...

[shadowj0 Posted Dec 2nd 2009 10:10PM]

@(Unverified)

Sorry, gotta make a correction on your post there. With the advent of capitalism on cable/satellite (i.e. a bajillion channels), kids these days have become more unfocused than ever. In fact, since TV viewing by kids has increased in the last 15 years, more kids have become diagnosed with ADD, unfortunately and inaccurately. With the TV, we now also have "affordable" video games and Internet access as other outlets of focus-grabbing. Doctors ignore the TV part or the parents lie about how much the kids actually watch. Bad parenting + too much TV = ADD. Diagnosis boomed with the TV being more consumer friendly.

[Needsahaircut Posted Dec 2nd 2009 7:40PM]

The sad reality to this situation is that people will actually purchase this.

[PGPProtector Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:29PM]

@Needsahaircut

The Developer doesn't think it's sad.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2009 7:53PM]

Google Latitude does this for free... and without the need for tweeting!

With that said, none of my friends actually use Latitude, much like Google Wave.

[Terrillo Posted Dec 2nd 2009 9:56PM]

@(Unverified)

I love Google products but no one else use them it is going annoying. Most of my friends use Yahoo instead of Gmail, that means no Google Talk or other cool things like Wave

[AceOfSpades Posted Dec 2nd 2009 7:56PM]

Mama's Family... lol You picked the perfect show for a Friday night you're ashamed of.

[Blackflag486 Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:04PM]

Old news with the reality browser which came out already on the android platform.. But since this is iPhone.. I'm sure it's better.... ? and the $2.99 is worth it..

[iRyguy33 Posted Dec 2nd 2009 9:30PM]

@Blackflag486
iPhone has Layar, too. And it's also free. With the twitter search.

[Blackflag486 Posted Dec 3rd 2009 1:35AM]

@Blackflag486

Yeah, Layer is pretty stalker status already.. Haha

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:06PM]

Also, the repeating music in the demo video... grrrrrr.

[xBeRx Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:11PM]

I mainly use Twitter for news purposes such as following engadget and joystiq, so this is pretty useless to me.

Also, Twitterriffic has BEEN doing this, and it's free.

[xBeRx Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:17PM]

Sorry, not twitteriffic, layar on iPhone, dunno about android.

[Coogan Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:21PM]

Layar already does this and it's free. Why would I buy this app when I already have Layar?

[glamajamma Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:36PM]

I use twitter to track people I don't like, so when I go all BLABBER SNORT SPIT THPPPPPPPTTTT, I know where to find them.

[Stuntman Posted Dec 2nd 2009 8:36PM]

Layar doesn't allow you to connect with your Twitter login/pass, so you won't be able to find your friends or people your following, am I wrong ?

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Dec 2nd 2009 9:17PM]

When I was a young boy, in grammar school in the northeast of the USA, we used to worry that one day the government would spy on all the citizens. Now the problem is that we are all spying on each other.

[El Jobso Posted Dec 2nd 2009 10:05PM]

Really? Your friend would rather tweet you than talk to you when he is feet away from you.
I reject this app

[Ucbigmike20 Posted Dec 2nd 2009 10:17PM]

The app is now just $0.99

[sweet greggo Posted Dec 2nd 2009 10:47PM]

Hi, I'm Engadget and I post more articles about applications for the iPhone than all other phones combined. Welcome to the site!

[Vendettx Posted Dec 2nd 2009 11:33PM]

@sweet greggo if you hate so much engadget then what are you doing here? Go and play java games in your shitty nokia hahahaha.

[jayeda Posted Dec 2nd 2009 11:20PM]

ohh another?....walks away..--

[billprice73 Posted Dec 3rd 2009 12:18AM]

Seems like a great app for the criminally minded. Rob your house while you're out...

Mortgage Watchdog

[bjoernkah Posted Dec 3rd 2009 4:19AM]

Looks a lot like TwittARound which seems to be still not accepted by Apple.

[vicdezen Posted Dec 3rd 2009 2:16PM]

So knowing the smallest details of somebody's life at that moment is not enough, you have to know their exact location? Privacy is becoming a word that is obsolete.

[bjoernkah Posted Dec 13th 2009 5:09AM]

Looks like TwittARound made it in the App Store, too:
itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twittaround/id322935744?mt=8