Twitter turns on maps feature for its website, but not for search
Twitter now lets people see maps of where geotagged tweets were sent from on its website. (They briefly showed this feature yesterday. It’s now turned on permanently.) The story began last year, when the company enthusiastically launched a location API that let users attach their location to tweets. “Everyone should do this!” co-founder Biz Stone told VentureBeat in an interview. Startups like Seemic and Tweetdeck were quick to build features around the new data. But it’s taken months for Twitter to finally show geotagged tweets on its own web site. Starting today, if you see a tiny blue location icon next to the attribution on a tweet, you can hover over it and a map will pop up, showing where the tweet was published from
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Twitter turns on maps feature for its website, but not for search
