The latest initiative from micro-blogging site Twitter will include geographical data in each person's tweets, displaying their latitude and longitude along with the time stamp.
This way, you can find out just where your long-lost cousin tweets, and they technically won't be lost any longer.
Called gelocation, the program is about to be previewed to platform developers so they can tweak features to allow it to operate as smoothly as possible. The tool will be featured as an app first before appearing on the website, according to an official blog posted by founder Biz Stone.
However, the team is leaving this feature up to each user, giving them a little privacy. 'Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location data won't be stored for an extended period of time,' he wrote.
Users do have the option to include this information in each tweet they send, which could be amusing for those travelling and posting updates about their trips.
This way, you can find out just where your long-lost cousin tweets, and they technically won't be lost any longer.
Called gelocation, the program is about to be previewed to platform developers so they can tweak features to allow it to operate as smoothly as possible. The tool will be featured as an app first before appearing on the website, according to an official blog posted by founder Biz Stone.
However, the team is leaving this feature up to each user, giving them a little privacy. 'Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location data won't be stored for an extended period of time,' he wrote.
Users do have the option to include this information in each tweet they send, which could be amusing for those travelling and posting updates about their trips.
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