Geo-Tweeting - Lets You Know What & Who is Nearby

Twitter will soon be making some big changes to their geo-tagging features. Right now, you can post a status update along with latitude and longitude -actually just a status update with a "where" in the form  of a coordinate attached to it. Not very exciting or useful unless you're a geographer.

The new geo-features will let you use Twitter to discover what's really going on nearby, or find  events, businesses, or even friends--turning Twitter into a powerful hyperlocal news and advertising vehicle for the mobile era as well as the planet's premier social life-casting network.

They'll soon be adding a whole new layer of  context to that status update to provide a few more options include actual easy-to-use text location, such as: the Googleplex, Mountain View, CA. 

The new features will provide a rich, and human-readable service,  with information about where the tweet has come from -- in this example, Google headquarters. For their first pass, they're only going live with USA-centric data but that will quickly be expanded geographically as Twitter works out the kinks.

Casey Kazan

Source Twitter Blog on Google Groups

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/e7fc06e4a8cb7150?

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[mike sheedy]

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