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Twitter Buys Mixer Labs For Geolocation Services

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the precise-location-of-every-inane-detail dept.

itwbennett writes "In a blog entry Wednesday, a Twitter official wrote that the company has acquired Mixer Labs, maker of GeoAPI, a service that helps developers build geolocation-aware applications for Twitter. 'Software using the service will allow Twitter users to tag the location where a message was written,' Agam Shah writes in an article on ITworld. 'Twitter did not immediately respond to comment on how much it paid for Mixer Labs.'"

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  1. Re:Geolocation tools don't work anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Right, if not ARIN, than the local equivelent, RIPE in europe's case, AFRINIC for africa, APNIC for asia, LACNIC for south america, etc.

    My point is that using a 3rd party application that one generally has to pay for and provides unreliable data is silly, when one can do a simple whois on an ip and pull the information right from the source.