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Friday, November 20. 2009

Twitter Geo API Available

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It went live yesterday (Twitter blog) and the Twittersphere was excited. The only challenge: it's an API so only developers, not end users, could do anything with it. Further, you can't take advantage of the API from the website, so, no cool location maps when using Twitter.com. But, those developers who build their own apps are already using the API: Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro. There's a nice best practices doc for developers, that's also valuable for end-users, I must say.

For us end-users on the site: for now, all you can do is turn the geotagging feature on or off (it's OFF by default). You do that via your settings where you can also delete your location history.

ReadWriteWeb has a nice overview of the kinds of apps the API may make possible.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Social Networking at 07:33 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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Location on Twitter is not new. There were applications that updated through twitter your location in Fireeagle. I agree now is MUCH easier / straightforward.


After the cool!!!¯ moment pass, the real question is how are you going to monetize this. Location is expensive and the illusion of free maps¯ disappears when you want to launch a commercial application.

I would recommend to learn from the many location based social networks that popped in the last years, their struggles and their success (some).

I compiled a list of almost 100 social networks that are based on location or that location is a key part of their features.
see http://bdnooz.com/lbsn-location-based-social-networking-links/

I invite you to read more about the complexity of Location Based Business Models in my blog http://bdnooz.com/


Will happy to cooperate and contribute in the future on this topic
#1 Claudio Schapsis (Link) on 2009-11-20 10:16 (Reply)

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