Twitter Unveils Tool to Share Locations on Tweets

By Allen Tsai | Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:21 pm

Social networking service Twitter today unveiled a new feature that let users include their whereabouts with their posts.

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The San Francisco, Calif.-based company said the new tracking tool won't include location information unless users turn it on, and can be turned off at any time.

Twitter is responding to the increasing popularity of other Internet rivals, such as Foursquare, that broadcast user locations. Yesterday, Facebook said it would release its own location service in late April.

In 2009, Twitter released a location feature that lets people see where posts are coming from and follow microbloggers by neighborhood or city.

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