Google Mapping the Flight Status Tweets

Commercial jets (ok not the jets but the airlines) are now Tweeting. Lufthansa has set up a new service called MySkyStatus which automatically posts the current position of your flight to Twitter (via). The service supposedly updates your twitter status with your flight location. I put together this quick Google Maps Mashup which shows these Flight Tweets (with the flight location) on Google Maps.

Air Traffic around the World - Amazing!!

Take a look at this video of air traffic over a 24 hour period around the world.
Very interesting. Frequency of Trans-Atlantic Flights increase as the sun sets over east coast of United States. (via GoogleMapsMania)