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Location awareness in Twitter


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Guest Paul (MVP)
Posted

I'd like to be able to attached co-ordinates to Twitter posts... so at least people my entries from the web could click through to, say, Google Maps of my location when I posted an item. That'd be neat... with more and more devices coming with positioning hardware, and a likely increase in dedicated clients like Twit! :)

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Guest nickcornaglia
Posted

Dont forget the text limitation though. If it were lat/lon you were after, you'd lose at least 12-20 characters out of your available message space.

Guest Paul (MVP)
Posted

Yeah, I was kinda assuming it'd only be used from twitter clients like twit, rather than SMS.

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  • 3 months later...
Guest Xavier
Posted

isn't that still subject to the same message size limit?

How about defining locations you're frequently at (and don't mind disclosing) and having shortcodes for each, so when you're at one of those it's only a character or two extra passed in?

Also won't tip the missus off that you're buying her b'day present the day before ;)

Guest Paul (MVP)
Posted

A lat long with half decent accuracy doesn't take up much space ;)

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  • 2 weeks later...
Guest nickcornaglia
Posted

how about tinyurl links to a google map instead?

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