Written by Twitter users can now tag tweets with specific location.
Twitter Inc. has recently launched a new feature to its microblogging service called Twitter Places. This feature enables users to tweet with geolocation tagging. It highlights tweets with specific locations and reveals a list of recent, public tweets from that location.
Twitter had included tags for general locations, such as a city or a neighborhood, since March. But Twitter Places lets users be more specific, such as telling everyone you’re actually in Soccer City watching a World Cup match.
From Twitter Blog
Starting today, you can tag Tweets with specific places, including all World Cup stadiums in South Africa, and create new Twitter Places. You can also click a Twitter Place within a Tweet to see recent Tweets from a particular location. Try it out during the next match—you will be able to see Tweets coming from the stadium.
Twitter Places features :
- Foursquare and Gowalla integration. Twitter announced better integration with these two location-based services, that enables viewing standard Tweets and check-ins from Foursquare and Gowalla whenever a Twitter Place is clicked.
- API. API functionality lets developers integrate Twitter Places into their applications.
- Support for more browsers. Location data will also work with more browsers, including Safari and Internet Explorer, in addition to Chrome or Firefox.
Twitter has data partnerships with TomTom and Localeze in order to make Twitter Locations work better. On coming week, it is rolling out to 65 more countries. It is also working to add Twitter Places to Twitter for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
More detailed information on how to use Locations can be found on twitter support.