Real News - Interactive newsroom for citizen journalism

Inspiration

We want to enable news aggregation, showing live tweets on an interactive map.

What it does

Real News shows you live updates and other information on a map. Follow current events, discover news in your area, or use it to enhance your newsroom.

Currently, it (only) fetches Tweets and shows them on a map. This could be used for research, for writing articles, or as an interactive widget in an online news article which shows current developments!

For example, a post about protests could show live updates sent from that area. Just one idea of many. Or TechCrunch could show live updates from the participants...

How I built it

We use the TomTom API, Twitter API, and some TeamWork magic ✨

Important note

We submitted two repos: First one for the backend (fetching tweets), second one for the frontend (uses a JSON dump)

Challenges I ran into

The front-end was challenging but Team work happened!!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Our Team

What I learned

Many things we can't list due to deadline constraints :(

What's next for Real News - Interactive newsroom for citizen journalism

Changing the way people see news... and the World

Built With

• css3
• html5
• javascript
• ruby-on-rails
• twitter