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Twitter, the long-standing mobile social network of choice, will soon be able to pull your GPS coordinates if you’re tweeting from a supported device and opt in for the service. This means individual tweets will be geolocated, allowing you to easily see who’s tweeting what around you. There are already a few augmented reality apps that are trying to tap into that demand, but with an official API soon available for developer preview, those apps will likely see a significant boost in readable tweets.
Now, if these APIs plugged into something like Fire Eagle, you would be able to update a number of location-based services whenever you tweet, but exact details are a little skimpy right now. Biz Stone makes a point to say “the exact location data won’t be stored for an extended period of time”, which seems like a shame to me. For example, it would be really nice to share your geotagged tweets from a road trip, and show what you had to say about where you stopped and what you were doing. The idea that the coordinates would just evaporate after a couple of months is pretty lame, although we might put some emphasis on the word “exact”, and presume they still keep location data for, say, the city-level. Exciting news, in any case – we’ll be watching intently for when the feature goes live.
[via Twitter Blog]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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