Twitter Adding Place Names to Geotagging Data
Twitter may be trying to carve its own niche in the location-based-services sector, alongside foursquare and Gowalla, by adding details on actual places to its geolocation data, Mashable reports.
Raffi Krikorian of the microblogging service’s platform team posted on the Twitter API Announcements Google Group:
I wanted to give you all a heads-up on some big changes we’re making to our geotagging API. Right now, you can post a status update along with a latitude and longitude pair — what we’ve jokingly referred to as “geo-tweeting” is actually just a status update with a “where” in the form of a coordinate attached to it.
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