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Twitter Location Features Rolling Out

Twitter.com Showing Where Some Tweets Come from

By Chris Crum

Last fall, Twitter started including geolocation information in its API, but it was not available through Twitter.com. That appears to be in the process of changing now.

This week, Twitter has been rolling out (it appears to still be in the process) geolocation info on tweets at Twitter.com. Various reports from users have been circulating, with those who have access to the feature pointing to a little blue icon by the tweet source on individual tweets, which when clicked, shows location information on a Map (powered by Google Maps).

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Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago at 6:50 pm.

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Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark

The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million.

Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price.

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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago at 2:32 pm.

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