Twitter is Geolocation

Last week Twitter announced that it will be included in the standard of geolocation in its short messaging system. Along with the options of daily updates, geo-users tweets closing conditions and seek the views of geo-metadata in the user Chronicle.

Until now, many developers can add to this page tweets in their applications, but does not rely directly on Twitter. “We are preparing for a new feature that Twitter is really aware of the start location,” said a message from the CEO of Biz Stone of Twitter. A new API allows developers to add a Tweet latitude and longitude. [...] We are very excited about the possibilities of location of metadata in relation to Twitter excited. ”

Before the foundation in its own website, is Twitter gives developers a preview of the API to enable their development. “We would like to publish geolocation platform for developers before adding the feature on Twitter.com. The use of most mobile applications, people and love are built by the Twitter platform for developers.”

Twitter is Geolocation
Twitter Already in June recruitment of Ryan Sarver Skyhook Wireless, a leading provider of Wi-Fi geolocation. Sarver at Skyhook was director of the consumer, and was head of the “Geographic Web was” is the founder and chairman of the Working Group Location Aware (World Wide Web Consortium), whose goal is to work with browser vendors, location and define the location of suppliers to consumers, without any known personal data standard for the creation of geolocation data from a user through a simple API.

Privacy
Twitter Geolocation including the thorny issue of privacy in the face. In a blog post on Twitter’s developer, Sarver Notes “Geolocation As part of our efforts will soon publish” Manual of Good Practice for All geolocation privacy and security as well as discussion of a great user experience. Topics include things such as store location information on what to do with historical data from a user, in order to show how the concept of geotagging and more presence. The guide provides a framework from which are the challenges that arise when using the address comes to something as sensitive as the position of a person, while so hopefully everyone has had enough creative freedom to create their own experiences to of. ”

Geolocation is also called “strictly” opt in “to decide only the user to add to your tweets position.

With all the problems we know about Twitter these days, the Geolocation API is certainly the development of new applications for micro-blogging service. Search by Hyper local citizen journalism to a friend, and besides, there are many innovative ways location can be used. If you look at his own record of Twitter could be a form of geo-targeting advertising, selling, a good thing for a company still having trouble, a business model.