A few weeks ago, Twitter launched the Geotagging API -- we reallywanted to enable users to not only talk about "What's happening?" butalso "What's happening right here?" For a while now, we've beenwatching as users have been trying to geo-tag their tweets through avariety of methods, all of which involve a link to a map serviceembedded in their Tweet. As a platform, we've tried to make it easierfor our users by making location be omnipresent through our platform,and an inherent (but optional) part of a tweet. We're making theplatform 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 ourGeotagging and our Trends API, show off some of our other upcominglocation based capabilities, and showcase some applications that arecurrently using them. Most of all, I'm looking forward to meetingdevelopers from the Google Geo API community and learning how folksare mashing them up with the Twitter API.
Hope to see you all at the Googleplex! RSVP here. Space limited.
Raffi Krikorian, Twitter Platform Team
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