> I decided to build something like *playfoursquare.com* - except it
> works in New Zealand!

> Basically, you go to a bar (malthouse?), load twitterplaces.com on
> your iphone / cellphone, 'check-in' at that location. You then:

>  * Get points to rank yourself on the Wellington leaderboard (for vanity)
>  * Get shown which of your friends are nearby (for yarns)
>  * Get a list of other people checked in where you are (hookups!)

> I'm really excited about twitterplaces - and I need an experimental
> group of interested, intelligent, eloquent and social persons who are
> often drinking late into the evening - and making
> friends.... Naturally, I thought of the wellingtonista.com - but I
> decided to email you guys first. ;D

> So - gentle reader, could I ask you, you personally to try it out at
> *http://www.twitterplaces.com/ *?

> :D

> Ben

> *The leaderboard looks a bit sad:*

> *And we must all work too hard because the top places is even worse:*