Geolocation Functions Come to Twitter
Twitter has officially launched the Geotagging feature for 3rd party clients.
By now, most of the Tom's news readers have figured out that we like to use Twitter. On a personal level, it's a good outlet for game and hardware updates from contacts that clog the Inbox on a daily basis. But letting readers know the geographic origins of those tweets just seems rather creepy, yet that's exactly what Twitter has now officially enabled for developers and Twitter clients.
According to this blog, Twitter has delivered what was promised back in August 2009: the Geotagging API. Users won't see this new feature on the Twitter website; the 3rd party applications like Birdseed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare and more will support the new functionality internally. In fact, many of these clients already have the new feature installed.
So what's the big deal? Why would Geotagging be important? Honestly, some of us didn't really understand why Tweeting was so important until we started using the service, and discovered how it can benefit the local community. Not only can this added feature benefit local conversations, but could also provide a better perspective of what the tweeter is talking about at a remote location.
"Now you can find out what live music is playing right now in your neighborhood or what people visiting Checkpoint Charlie are saying today about the anniversary of the Berlin Wall," the company said. "These are only the beginning and we are really looking forward to seeing the creative uses emerge from the developer community."
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I still haven't used Twitter. I really can't see what's so great about it. I have better things to do with my time over reading what Britney Spears just ate for lunch.
It's for people with absolutely nothing better to do then to tell others what pointless crap they're doing every 5 minutes.
God I wish I had a twitter where I could complain about how much I hate hearing about twitter and how flippen great it is.
twitter is equal to the old days when cell phones first came out, and friends calling each other going "im at the store!" "I'm buying a shirt"
doesn't it make sense the word "twit" it part of the word?
twitter for the masses is nothing more than people with an over inflated sense of self that deems useless mundane information about themselves worthy of pointing out to others on a real time basis.
twitter, making people feel false sense of importance 140 characters at a time!
seriously, what can be so important that someone can deem it worthy of letting people know, that fits in 140 characters?
twitter is like texting. nothing important is ever sent by texting, but twitter makes it so they can let many people that dont care, read their dribble at once...instead of texting to people that don't care one at a time
I don't see myself ever spending time on twitter. I have one, but have tweeted maybe twice. I don't feel the need to tell everyone everything. If I want to tell someone something, I do it next time I talk or chat or whatever (in other words, actual conversations).
Maybe I'm just an old-fashioned 23 year old.
What I find great about tweeter is they letting you chose what tweeters to listen to. I mean this is great. It's just like visiting a chosen site. Oh, wait a moment... visiting a site, and feds, and... now I remember, my attention span was not spanning enough for me to open a tweeter account as of yet.