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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. How about attaching URLs? by MBCook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about making it so users can attach a URL with a tweet so people don't have to use URL shorteners?

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