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Twitter Developing Location-Based API

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-up-to-the-minute-online-stalking dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Twitter developers are now working on a location-based API that will provide accurate information on your whereabouts. Developers will be able to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. The option will definitely be opt-in. Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice, and the exact location data won't be stored for an extended period of time."

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  1. Re:Great idea by wizardforce · · Score: 2, Informative

    flash mobs, protests, meetings etc.

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  2. Re:Did I fall through a vortex? by horatio · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm looking at my iPhone running TwitterPhone right now. It supports adding my location to my tweets, and letting me search for anyone posting within a certain radius of my location. Is this just an old story, or is there something new here I'm missing?

    You're not hallucinating about twitter. Maybe about the girlfriend, this is /. after all.

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