TwellowHood: Australia

First, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Chad, and I work as support for Twellow. For the majority of my life, I lived in and grew up in Australia. With this premise, ever since TwellowHood was first launched, it has been my goal to see a region added for Australia.

Lead programmer/developer Matthew Daines and I have been working diligently to make an Australian-dedicated feature possible so that Aussies can find other Twitter users with common interests, based on their geographic location. With this said, on behalf of Twellow, I would like to present TwellowHood: Australia to you.

This new service includes the following Australian states and territories:

• Australian Capital Territory
• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia

We hope that you enjoy this new feature, and also hope that this helps you find other fellow Aussies that matter on Twitter.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 10:57 am and is filed under Twellow Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “TwellowHood: Australia”

1. Marshall Kirkpatrick Says:
   August 26th, 2009 at 11:22 am

   Hey folks, I am not Australian but I thought I’d take this opportunity to thank you for the awesomeness that is Twellow. It’s a really essential service. Hope your index can keep growing, though. Last night I was making a list of folks in the Augmented Reality sector and found a couple in Tweepz.com that weren’t here. None the less – love ya!

2. ChadSweely Says:
   August 26th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

   Hi Marshall,

   You do not have to be Australian to only take advantage of this new addition to TwellowHood. TwellowHood is a great way to find Twitter users around the globe.

   I would like to thank you for your positive feedback and interest regarding our awesome Twitter directory, and we are glad that you found it useful for searching users related to the Augmented Reality niche.

3. astuces Says:
   September 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am

   I’ve just joined the website, I think it’s a great way to deal with the large audience using twitter…Thank you for the service

4. Chad Sweely Says:
   September 8th, 2009 at 10:36 am

   Hi astuces,

   Thank you for your positive feedback regarding Twellow, and also for joining our quality Twitter directory service!

5. Rose Says:
   September 18th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

   Hi Chad,

   Well done, fantastic achievement getting Australia into Twellow.

   Any chance of doing NZ next? We\’re only little and won\’t take too long

6. Chad Sweely Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 am

   Hi Rose,

   Thank you for your great remarks regarding Australia’s tier to TwellowHood! It is much appreciated.

   Regarding NZ, we hope to have this area of TwellowHood up and running in the new feature. Please be sure to stay up-to-date with this blog on new updates with TwellowHood.

7. Simon Hensby Says:
   October 30th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

   Typical Americans. Your knowledge of geography outside USA is pretty non existant. New Zealand is not part of Australia i.e. shouldn’t highlight on your map and neither should Papua New Guinea.

   Simon Hensby
   United Kingdom (Use Wikipedia to find out where we are)

8. Matthew Daines Says:
   November 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 am

   Simon,

   The reason New Zealand and Papua New Guinea are highlighted in the map software along with Australia is that the map is designed to highlight entire continents at the world level. You will also notice our apparent lack of North American geographic knowledge, as we have included Greenland, Mexico, and the whole of Central America and the Caribbean Islands in highlighting North America, even though we currently only have actual data for Canada and the United States.

   Our team members are quite aware that Australia is a sovereign country, distinct and separate from New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. With Chad Sweely (our team member responsible for gathering the geographic data for Australia and publishing this post) having lived in Australia for fifteen years, and I myself having lived in Botswana and South Africa for two years, our team of “typical Americans” are quite well versed in the geography of the Southern Hemisphere.

   Best Regards,

   Matthew Daines
   Twellow Lead Developer

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