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Re: TWITTER LOCAL: Twitter to Attach Locations to Your Tweets

sleepygirl — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:46:43 -0000

I like the idea of being able to find others in your local area, or the ability to search by City or location if you're visiting a new area, however, EXACT location? I see huge safety and privacy issues with that.

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Jerry Zambrano — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:15:59 -0000

My biggest question/concern with the new API is after opting in, whether the GeoLocation is gathered from user input of personal location? Or does this application take one's location directly from a user's IP address. The latter seems more intrusive and can open the door for exploits in my personal opinion. My IP address is as sacred to me as... the knowledge of what brand underwear I use (LOL).

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mneu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:07:31 -0000

I think this has interesting business applications for SMB's once developers start working with it, because the majority of the people they are interacting with are locally based

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Ben Lang — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:39:24 -0000

cool twitter is really improving

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Arijit Das — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:01:21 -0000

Nice idea to attach locations on the Tweets!!

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Shevonne — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:47:11 -0000

I'm already using UbertTwitter, Google Latitude, and BrightKite, so this will pretty cool.

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rikin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:06:23 -0000

Makes alot of sense for conferences as there would be no need for hashtags to follow. Simply follow by address/location.

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hafiz — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:07:30 -0000

Looks great if it can attach by location..Need to find out

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Melanie Notkin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:31:46 -0000

Huge privacy issues here... I highly doubt any woman has ever written a geo-locator app. This is why I didnt like Brightkite and don't play Foursquare. Yes yes I know you can turn things off and optin/out... but I don't even want to think about it.

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rubert — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:28:57 -0000

great, now I can give the whole world my exact location. Perhaps I should also just post my address and telephone number everywhere I can think of too?

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taulpaul — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:30:53 -0000

Half the people saying they don't want people to know their location are probably checking in on Foursquare daily. This is huge on so many levels, even if the opt-in rate is 10% of all users.

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Stephen Ratner — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:10:11 -0000

Right, I agree. I've used ubertwitter at conferences before and it's good for situations like that. Happy there is an opt-in.

Keep up the good work, Ben!

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Leslie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:48:29 -0000

Yes I know what it means. ;) I should have typed "CLEARLY opt out", thinking of the average, non-computer savvy user. Remember the See All @ Replies debacle? A highly useful, favorite feature that was also set to off and yet still caused a stir because that wasn't clear, and so we all lost a fantastic feature.

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Gail Gardner — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:34:47 -0000

Hopefully they will ASK where people are and not just guess. Most geo-targeting is less than accurate. What business reason is there to use latitude and longitude instead of allowing us to indicate our GENERAL location? Rarely does anyone have a legitimate reason to REALLY know more than a metro area (DFW, Austin area, central Texas, etc.).

Keeping it optional will also be important to many who sell online and don't want to be limited to one location and to others who do not have any desire to make finding out where they are every minute any easier than it already is.

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Gail Gardner — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:32:39 -0000

Deleted accidental dup comment.

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Craig Foster — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:40:23 -0000

Will this Force Executive's Hand? http://bit.ly/htjzo

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andy09 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:34:37 -0000

Well I've never heard of you, so should I completely disregard what you have to say? No not at all, just because you don't know about it doesn't mean that it's not worth mentioning. Did you hear about Mashable as soon as it came out? Though, I appriciate the comment...

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Trigeia Twins — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:32:34 -0000

not sure if we love it or hate it. Now we really have to really watch what we say! Here is another take on this same issue http://www.trigeia.com/arti...

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Cris — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:11:20 -0000

I can see how this would be useful. I certainly hope they consider an option that only makes your location visible to your followers. And I like Calyx's idea of being able to flag whether you want to tweet your location with each tweet. Sometimes you might not want even your best friend to know where you are. If it's not super simple it's going to get messy.

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Melissa Moore — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:10:14 -0000

Great news. Looking forward to the launch.

Off topic a bit, but where can I go to get all the "share this post" buttons?

Re: TWITTER LOCAL: Twitter to Attach Locations to Your Tweets

barkerja — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:58:27 -0000

What you just mentioned is exactly how http://brightkite.com does it. I suggest you check them out!

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Calyx Moon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:52 -0000

It's a cool idea if you're on the go & want everybody to know, but maybe Twitter could arrange this so users can on off this feature at every tweet, therefore giving more flexibility for us & not be worrying about getting ourselves discovered when we least want to.

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barkerja — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:49 -0000

Not just you guys, but what about mentioning the other location-based services already out there, say Brightkite for example. If Twitter added inline photos/comments they'd be Brightkite.

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eltonlester — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:54:02 -0000

given 65% of users are still posting via the web how 'real' is this location going to be?

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modemlooper — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:49:07 -0000

how bout we get twitter to work first.