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We have front row seats for this theatre of mass destruction. The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin...Twitter recently outlined changes to its geo-tagging API, Tweets are tagged with specific GPS coordinates but support for only latitude and longitude coordinates was considered a bit rubbish. Now they have introduced context, turning them into locations and providing the ability to compete with location-based services such as Foursquare or Gowalla. Now if you want to inform more than your imaginary friend about your location on Twitter you can do so, now for the credit-card records...
our goal is to provide a few more options to API developers (and the users they are servicing) through this contextual information. people, we find, inherently want to talk about a "place". a place, for a lot of people, has a name and is not a latitude and longitude pair. (37.78215, -122.40060), for example, doesn't mean a lot to a lot of people -- but, "San Francisco, CA, USA" does. we're also trying to help users who aren't comfortable annotating their tweets with their exact coordinates, but, instead, are really happy to say what city, or even neighborhood, they are in. annotating your place with a name does that too.
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