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Here’s another cool use of Twitter. Orbiting Frog has created several Twitter feeds that use data to determine when the International Space Station (ISS) and Hubble will be visible over your part of the sky. When the time approaches for them to move over your city, you will get a 30 – 45 minutes tweet beforehand so you can go out and check it out. Tweet alerts will also only show up when the weather is good enough.

Right now, not all cities are covered but you can always contact the author via email or twitter to make a request. Basically, this method treats Twitter as an alert system.. giving you around the clock information on specific changes to your environment (in this case.. the appearance of huge objects in space over your part of the sky).

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