"Twitter will add location to Tweets" by Bloomberg News | August 21, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter, the social-networking service that delivers 140-character messages, will soon let users share their location when they post Tweets.
The feature, which relies on the global positioning system, will require users’ permission to show locations, said Biz Stone, cofounder of Twitter Inc. “It records location along with every Tweet,’’ he said. “It allows for some really interesting context.’’
Twitter will make the new feature available to outside software developers, who will build it into their programs, Stone said. The service will give exact locations. It will be available in the next two or three weeks. An application might be able to show what people are Tweeting about in a two-mile radius, Stone said.
Some developers are already providing similar features....
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