The New York Times covers Twitter's planned release of geolocation data. The new feature will take advantage of geolocation data in cellphones letting users include their location in tweets.
This will allow users to search Twitter by location, improving its use for location applications like local commerce. It will also allow comparisons across geography. For example you could compare what people in New York tweeting about swine flu versus people in Texas.
More evidence of the growth of the local web.
Twitter continues its march of social networking dominance, spurred even further into the spotlight thanks to a recent high profile race to a million followers between Ashton Kutcher and CNN, and Oprah Winfrey’s decision to sign up this past Friday. Along with its massive increase in popularity comes a growing library of useful third-party Twitter tools. Here are four new web apps that offer unique features that could be especially beneficial to web workers.
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