The micro blogging site Twitter plans to launch a new feature to provide information about the geographic location from where a Tweet actually originates. Currently platform developers have been making some progress in this regard, with the assistance of the very basic APIs available to them. At present ,geolocation based projects are made with the use of the location details filled in by members on their profiles. However, this is not a very dependable and effective method to judge immediate location as users often tweet from multiple locations without changing their location each time.

Twitter will permit their members to include their latitude and longitude if they wish to do so with each tweet. The service will be firmly opt-in, with the default being set to ‘off’. Tweet-level geo tagging will be treated another way than the location data entered manually by the user in their profile. Location data in the profile will persist to be utilised to give a general idea to visitors about where a member is normally based.

One major advantage of this feature is that ,you could toggle from reading the tweets of accounts you follow to reading tweets from any person either in your neighborhood or city-irrespective of whether you follow them or not.

Twitter,is thus getting better with the introduction of this fresh opt-in geolocation feature.

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