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Thursday, 11th March 2010

New Feature on Twitter.com: "Tweet Your Location"

This feature went live on Wednesday afternoon.

You can now associate a location with each tweet. You'll need to turn this feature on. The link to activate is directly below the "What's Happening" box.

From the VentureBeat

Startups like Seemic and Tweetdeck were quick to build features around the new data. But it’s taken months for Twitter to finally show geotagged tweets on its own web site.

Starting today, if you see a tiny blue location icon next to the attribution on a tweet, you can hover over it and a map will pop up, showing where the tweet was published from. It’s a nice addition based on the Google Maps API that helps the website catch up to the experience other companies already provide based on Twitter’s data.

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...the new maps feature isn’t turned on for Twitter’s search results. The whole point of location-based search is to be able to find what’s actually happening around you right now. Instead, Twitter tosses a few such tweets into a wash of noise for any search in downtown San Francisco. For example, here’s a search for tweets in VentureBeat’s ZIP code. It makes a pretty demo, but you’ll get a mix of results — tweets that were actually sent from downtown San Francisco within the last hour, drowned out by tweets from people who claim on their profiles that they’re in downtown San Francisco (even if they’re really on a business trip in New York.)

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It explains between the geolocation feature that Twitter uses vs. the Google Buzz method.

Source: VentureBeat


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