Twitter Developing Location-Based API 90
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."
Re:Did I fall through a vortex? (Score:3, Interesting)
GPS Twitter [where.com]
Twittervision [twittervision.com]
Twittermap [twittermap.com]
Could have been one of those... and I'm sure there are others.
Re:What's all the hub-bub? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:What's all the hub-bub? (Score:2, Interesting)
I believe it goes well beyond what can be done with IM.
In Twitter I can post on a subject, and see what hundreds of other people around the world are saying about the same subject. I can reply to what they say, and they can reply to what I say. All this in real time. I can also refer back to what was said after that fact, and link to it.
This can be done via web, SMS, or any of a dozen client apps. I can also follow individuals and subjects via RSS feeds.
A cool recent trend is that many organisations now monitor and use Twitter as a PR exercise. I once casually commented on Twitter about a missing piece of information on an obscure government website, and a week later got a reply from a government worker saying it had been fixed. I commented about how a restaurant chain had removed an item I liked from its menu, and got a reply from the restaurant with a recommendation. A friend wished out loud how much they would like this new video camera they had just heard about, and within an hour the manufacturer replied telling them of a contest in which they were giving a way a hundred of the cameras.
Try doing that with IM.
If they can add long/lat to a tweet... (Score:3, Interesting)