For cigar aficionados, the pleasure doesn't end when the ember goes out. This worldwide community takes deep social pleasure in talking about cigars, sharing news and invitations, and especially in discovering rare and high quality brands.
Understanding that, digital studio ClickFire Media fused Twitter and Google Maps to create a first-of-its-kind branded site that publishes real-time tweets from cigar lovers around the world. EPCarrillo.com heralds the December release of a limited edition cigar by renowned cigar-maker Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, and carries the tagline, "Soon, everyone will be talking about one cigar."
To create the site's functionality, the team at ClickFire accessed the APIs of Twitter and Google Maps. While a community of developers has sprung up around Google Maps' API, this particular solution scrapes live tweets, ed for key word "cigar," from all Twitter feeds 150 times an hour-the maximum number of requests allowed-then verifies each user's location and fil
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