Twitter to Show Location of Tweeters

By Allen Tsai | Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:51 am

Social-networking service Twitter is launching a new location-based feature that lets people see where "tweets" are coming from and follow microbloggers by neighborhood or city.

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Users interested in publishing their whereabouts will need to activate the new feature -- which will be disabled by default. Twitter said the location data will only be stored temporarily.

"It's easy to imagine how this might be interesting in an event like a concert or something more dramatic like an earthquake," said Biz Stone, Twitter's co-founder.

The service will be available in the next two or three weeks.

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