Twitter is planning to tag location to your tweets more accurately.
Tagging location right now depends on users to fill in their current location manually. With people putting their location as “at the top of your mind!” or “in your heart”, it doesn’t really make up to reliable location data.
This new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to your tweet for tracking of your true location.
For fellow users to see where you are tweeting from, you will need to activate this new feature, which is switched off by default.
What’s the Use of this new API?
It’s pretty exciting. With accurate location data, users could switch from reading the tweets strictly received from people they follow, to tweets from people living in a particular location selected — whether they follow them or not. The impact of this new API will be especially clear when there is a particular event or disaster happening at a certain location. Users will soon have a choice to get fresh updates from people they don’t follow as well.
What’s even more intriguing is that this new API also tells you which McDonald’s a particular person is dining at or which club a person is tweeting from.
With this intelligent geolocation technology, this tool could very possibly be used for advertising purposes in the near future.
According to Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone, this new API will be released to your favorite Twitter platforms and applications before it is officially launched on Twitter.com.
