Monday, November 9. 2009

The Value of Location-based Tweets

Noam Cohen writes in the New York Times why the upcoming location API for Twitter will make the service so much more useful. Basically, it helps filter the huge number of tweets, so many of which are re-tweets, simply sending on the same information. Using the existing geofiltering to get news on the recent sad events at Fort Hood, he notes, helped tremendously, even before this API is fully available.

I think he's right; there's quite a lot of noise on Twitter and any further tools to find the relevant information will be a huge step forward.

- New York Times

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LBS at 07:45 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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