Quick Pitch: Tweetmondo finds local Twitter users and shows you where they are on a map.
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Genius Idea: It's becoming clear that location-based services are in high demand. The rise of GPS-enabled phones, LBS adoption, and social networking has created a need for location-based social networks and tools. Twitter's no exception - in fact, we highlighted 9 different ways to find local Twitter users last month. Tweetmondo, however, seeks to drive location-based Twitter applications to another level with filtering and realtime features.
The Twitter application makes a simple promise: give it a location (the more specific, the better) and it will tell you which Twitter users are nearby. For example, I was just at the Googleplex (for a tweetup), so I typed in "Googleplex" and, in a few seconds, I was provided with a Google Map containing Twitter profile pictures and a list of people who were likely to be nearby.
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