Twittering
Friday, 6th February 2009 by Alex Turnbull
Judging by the number of new followers we have, it appears that this has been the week that Twitter finally hit the mainstream, so we thought we'd post another roundup of the best Street View sights we've posted to the Official Google Sightseeing Twitter feed.
- The claimed "world's smallest city block" looks more like a traffic island to me (More info)
- The Google car appears to be stopped between two closed level crossings! Pan around to see for yourself.
- Ghostriding the whip?
- Driver narrowly fails to add "cow" to list of things run over by Google.
- An Easter Island Moai in Tucson, AZ.
- Last week Google added the ocean floor to Earth and Maps, including some writing (Can anyone find any other sea oddities?)
Oh dear, this would appear to be a man on the toilet!OMFG THIS GUY IS MASSIVE!- Click North from here and you will be teleported into another Street View car that is following behind.
Aiiiee! It's the giant of Texas!- A drunken LA resident still sleeping it off on her front lawn the next morning.
- In Washington, it's less about sleeping it off, and more about... having a nap?
- Crazy writing on a street corner; "Throbbing 2 Breathings All Sounds by Demon". Uh, yeahhh. Nutjob.
- Joey Tribbiani might have been thankful for this breeze.
- Train carriage propped on stilts and turned into a bar. But how do you get in?
- Geyser erupting at Yellowstone.
- The Google Car has a police escort to drive down this pedestrianised street.
- It's a Douglas DC-3 plane. Covered in Cookies. Mmm, Cookies...
Update: It appears several of these have been deleted by Google since we originally posted them, which is just all the more reason to stay abreast of the very latest findings by subscribing to our Twitter feed!
Or, for those of you who want to avoid the direct messaging that accompanies our Street View posts on Twitter, I've created an experimental RSS feed with Yahoo pipes that will return all our Twitter posts combined with the posts from the main site. Please bear in mind that although I've tried to filter out duplicates and direct message chatter, it's not perfect. However we will be soon incorporating our two feeds together properly.
Finally, for those that do Twitter, next Thursday I will be attending the Edinburgh Twestival, and James will be representing GSS at the Oxford Twestival! See you there?
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Sad that the man on toilet, OMFG MASSIVE GUY, and Texas Giant have already been removed.
Thanks 433, I’ve updated the post.
Two observations from the ‘police escort’ spot in Madrid. The face blur facility is random at best but mainly just down right bloomin useless. Also if you follow the car down the street its obviously a very busy shopping day but get to the end of the street and look back and all of a sudden it looks like a Sunday morning. They seemed to have done the rest of the area on a quiet morning but decide to bowl through a pedestrianised area on a Saturday afternoon! Doh!
The Google Car in between the “level crossings” (that’s a British term, we Americans call them railroad crossings or more technically correct, grade crossings) is in a very dangerous situation since it is on the tracks when the gates are down. Those gates guard all 4 sets of tracks there, and the gates should be obeyed, never ignored.
Stop, look, listen, and live! http://www.oli.org/
As far as the cow is concerned, the car track runs straight off the road instead of holding the curve. Perhaps there is justice after all?
Welkcome to Twitter :}
the Easter island head in Tucson is no longer at that mini-golf course, however it has been relocated to a restaurant on 4th ave.
Oh, wow- the world’s smallest city block looks like a street merkin.