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Twitter Location Enhancements
A recent update to the Twitter API Announcement group identified some specifics on how location will be easier to apply to user’s status updates, enabling Twitter to better play the in space social-location services like Foursquare and Gowalla popularized. This will be a fun development to follow, and we will certainly benefit the platform we created to drive sites like the local-oriented STL Tweets.
Twitter’s focus on a rich API allows for a wide range of clients, apps, and connections to this service, which ensures their audience can participate from as many points possible. Their continued web-service enhancement further establishes Twitter as a platform to adapt and extend, and improving location support encourages better local information sharing.
