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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:Did I fall through a vortex? by Vectronic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GPS Twitter
    Twittervision
    Twittermap

    Could have been one of those... and I'm sure there are others.

  2. Re:What's all the hub-bub? by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the case of Twitter, the only improvement that's happened here is that anyone with a decent browser can access it.

    Maybe the cause of your surprise is that you're trivializing things that are actually quite important.

    By making Twitter accessible via a web site, the effort required to follow a feed went from (minor, and slightly technical) to (nada). With something like Twitter, which is of only marginal value to most people, I'm guessing that using it needs to have just about zero degree of inconvenience, or else people just won't bother.

  3. If they can add long/lat to a tweet... by kenh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can they add a URL a la tinyurl.com/bit.ly/etc instead/as an option?

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    Ken