Where you Twitter...the service goes geospatial
Late yesterday and this morning, the blogosphere and twittersphere have been abuzz at Twitter's announcement that it will incorporate geospatial capabilities into the next iteration of the Twitter API to be released soon. This will give developers an opportunity to incorporate lat-log data into user's tweets to see specific locations of where the tweets are being posted. While this will be an optional feature for privacy reasons, having this capability will open up the doors for some very interesting use of Twitter for real time events such as natural disasters, breaking news, and whole host of other uses. Students and teachers in the field can use this to their advantage as well for fieldwork and data gathering adding an entirely new context to real time microblogging. Remember, its all about location, location, location...
Read the official announcement at the Twitter Blog.
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Very interesting, Keene! So
Very interesting, Keene! So many tools and phenomena are becoming spatially enabled, it seems. Such things lend themselves to wonderful discussions about privacy vs public access in the classroom and in the general public sphere.