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Title: Twitter partners with Foursquare to add precise locations to tweets Post by: HCK on March 24, 2015, 03:00:16 pm Twitter partners with Foursquare to add precise locations to tweets
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Twitter is about to catch up to Facebook circa 2011. The self-styled information network recently announced it will partner with Foursquare to let you tag your tweets with specific locations. Until now, including your location in a tweet only added the general area you were in, such as a city or rural county.</p><p>With Foursquare’s database of more than 65 million places worldwide, Twitter will be able to let you get a lot more specific. Twitter recently published a video showing its new Foursquare location mash-up in action. At first glance it’s a set-up that Facebook users will be immediately familiar with.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <p>Coming soon! We’re working with @foursquare (https://twitter.com/foursquare) so you can tag specific locations in Tweets: https://t.co/MwlLz5Pfvq (https://t.co/MwlLz5Pfvq) pic.twitter.com/jATzXvbuV6 (http://t.co/jATzXvbuV6)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2900885/twitter-partners-with-foursquare-to-add-precise-locations-to-tweets.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Twitter partners with Foursquare to add precise locations to tweets (http://www.macworld.com/article/2900885/twitter-partners-with-foursquare-to-add-precise-locations-to-tweets.html#tk.rss_all) |