A few weeks ago, Twitter launched the Geotagging API -- we really
wanted to enable users to not only talk about "What's happening?" but
also "What's happening right here?"  For a while now, we've been
watching as users have been trying to geo-tag their tweets through a
variety of methods, all of which involve a link to a map service
embedded in their Tweet.  As a platform, we've tried to make it easier
for our users by making location be omnipresent through our platform,
and an inherent (but optional) part of a tweet.  We're making the
platform be not just about time, but also about place.




I'm really excited to talk about this and other things next Tuesday,
December 15th at the Google Geo Hackathon.  I hope to cover our
Geotagging and our Trends API, show off some of our other upcoming
location based capabilities, and showcase some applications that are
currently using them.  Most of all, I'm looking forward to meeting
developers from the Google Geo API community and learning how folks
are mashing them up with the Twitter API.



Hope to see you all at the Googleplex! RSVP here. Space limited.



Raffi Krikorian, Twitter Platform Team