Tweet Location Sharing Tool Unveiled By Twitter
With the new sharing tool released by Twitter the world is now able to know automatically about your location instead of only your thoughts and activities. This new feature that was just unveiled Thursday (03/11/2010) it now allows the users of Twitter to tweet with the option of including their current location along with the other various musings posted on this internet messaging service.
For those that are concerned about their privacy, especially with all of the problems with the release of Google Buzz, the locations aren’t going to be included automatically. If you are someone that wants to take advantage of this tool you will have to turn it on. The technology will shadow people through their Web browser and the user is able to turn this off at any time that they choose.
Twitter is both using and responding to the rising popularity of other internet services like that of:
• Gowalla
• Foursquare
• Loopt
These internet services will also broadcast user’s locations and you can expect that Facebook won’t be far behind and will join this trend soon.
For the most part the 73 million Twitter users worldwide already put the location they are tweeting from in their tweets. The nice thing for those people is that they are going to be able to save that precious room since the tweets have a 140 character limit.
The sharing of locations is becoming so commonplace that there was a website recently released that is called Please Rob Me. It was launched to be a reminder that thief’s are able to take this information and start to isolate places where nobody is home in order to rob them. For this reason Twitter has already warned the users to be very careful about how and when they are using this new tool.
Getting people to share their locations is something that will likely help internet services work to be able to get more advertising sold through the companies that look to sell their products in specific neighborhoods at specific times.
The tool is designed to work flawlessly with both Chrome and Firefox 3.5. If you want to use it with Internet Explorer you’ll be required to do an additional download.
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