Social Media Marketing Blog: Twitter joins Geo-location bandwagon

Congratulations – your twitter is being updated! Yep, you will soon be able to share your location and organize your tweets based on where they originate. Geo-location will be an exciting addition to Twitter and will be great for keeping Tweeps organized. Users will be able to ‘Geo Code’ their posts and the information will be available not only on Twitter but also through external applications. I think that Twitter just keeps on getting interesting. I am fascinated by what it is right now as well! Just imagine ‘tweets’ being rightly geo-tagged and us being able to read all tweets for a particular city, neighborhood or a particular event or concert. The geo-tagging feature is supposed to be strictly an opt-in feature. I guess it would be so that users can choose to remain untrackable? There is no specific date set yet for the official release of the geo-location API however, I am sure that once released, it is going to add a whole new dimension of how we use twitter and information on it. I’m looking forward to it and will of course pontificate on how it has brought value, once I’ve had a chance to use it.

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