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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 08:47AM 
Hmm. Here’s another Twitter app. IMHO, (sorry Foamee, which i kinda dig) this is a much better use of what Twitter has to offer. And frankly (did I just say “frankly?”) it really speaks to me seeing as I spend somewhere between 8 and 20 hours week held hostage by some sort of train or car.
Hokay soh, you’ve heard of navigation systems now with updated traffic info, yeah? Cool.
but what if they crowd-sourced that data?
Enter Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you post reports on traffic and transit delays in your local area using Twitter.
For those of you in NYC - heres the feed for our area. Nothing much up there yet - but as it goes with crowd-sourced data the machine relys on user input. Let’s see how this one goes…
Reader Comments (2)
Tom: There's an email version of this as well: www.clevercommute.com
Have not tried it yet since NJ Transit's delays are often, well, transitory, and I really don't have a plan B for getting to work anyway.
Hey! Thanks. That makes it much easier to use, surely. I'm pretty bummed at how slow the uptake is. Too bad MetroNorth doesn't just use their service for themselves...