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Twitter Turns on “Tweet Your Location”, Mapping Tweets on Twitter.com.
Twitter is in the process of enabling geolocated tweets on Twitter.com.
If you have the feature enabled you should notice a “Tweet with your Location” option that uses the Google Maps API to map the tweets. The option gives Twitter users the option of tweeting their location on Twitter.com and then allowing others to view the precise location on Google Maps.
Spotted initially yesterday, Twitter seemed to pull the feature before anyone had a chance to use it, today appears to be the day of its full roll out across the site. Developers have had access to the feature for some time via the Twitter API for their own Twitter clients, but this is the first location feature we’ve seen Twitter enable on its own website.
If you have the feature enabled you should see a pin underneath the tweet itself here but you’ll also be able to see them in the stream view, for example here.
With SXSW just around the corner and the hoopla over the various Location services, the timing of this is crucial. Gowalla, Foursquare, Buzz, lets the games begin.
More to come.
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Nice catch Zee. Interesting to me was that they also prompted me to turn on location. I have a company account that didn't have the settings for location turned on, and I got a nice, unthreatening prompt to easily change those settings, with no mention of PleaseRobMe.com.
I ave yet to see this feature but I guess it's good idea. Of course, I don't really get FourSquare and this other site.
keen to see how this will pan out…. i can't see it yet
I'm able to geo-tag my tweets as well although the map is very very general in terms of location. At the same time Twitter asked me if I was interested in seeing tweets from the immediate area from people I don't necessarily follow.
A colleague who has “Add location information to my tweets” turned off in her account setting is not seeing the same features which is to be expected.
Damn!!, I noticed about 45mins ago! I could've got this scoop.
http://twitter.com/dougaitken/status/10296553621
Awesome catch though, this is the start of a lot of UI changes I think (anyone else noticed the “Tweet” button looks different?
Yeah i saw that ealier.
More ways for burglars to know where you are and aren't. If your not home and advertising it you are sure to get robbed!!! BEWARE!! You might me the next on PleaseRobMe.com.
More ways for burglars to know where you are and aren't. If your not home and advertising it you are sure to get robbed!!! BEWARE!! You might me the next on PleaseRobMe.com.
WHY???Honestly, people share too much on FB and other sites leading people to be victims of crime(and stupidity in my opinion). Beware or you might me next on PleaseRobMe.com.
How will this work out for the NASA astronauts who tweet from outer space?
IP address in combination with routing information would be my guess. Put together a nice database of the two and you could get a pretty clear picture of where someone is without using GPS. Most likely not as accurate though.
How does it know my location when I'm using the web twitter application on my PC??? Is it based on my ISP route? Or, the only other possibility I can come up with is that ubertwitter is sending my location and that is what twitter is basing it on. I'll turn of GPS tomorrow and test.
I can't figure out how when tweeting from the twitter native web client (http://www.twitter.com), twitter knows my location. I'm technical and I am not concerned about the fact that it knows where I am, I just can't figure out how it knows where I am. I have only come up with 2 possibilities, I hope to figure it out tomorrow.
1 – Twitter is using my ISP route to figure out my location (cool)
or
2 – Since I also use Ubertwitter on my BlackBerry and I keep the GPS feature on most of the time (it's currently on), Twitter must be caching that information and leveraging it when I tweet from my PC (also cool).
I selectively use Lattitude, 4-Square and twitter/ubertwitter GPS location capabilities. I would caution others that there are safety risks with all of the above.
Nice)))