Twitter is Now Place as Well as Location-Aware

by Chris Abraham on 22/08/2010 ·

Here’s a little proof that Twitter is now not simply location aware, in terms of latitude and longitude or address, but is now place-aware.  I checked in to both of these places on FourSquare and Twitter recognized these places by name:

twitterLocationAwareness Twitter is Now Place as Well as Location Aware

Then, I decided to click on the Trader Joe’s, Falls Church link beside the little map marker, and lo! there was the following pop-up window, which is very much aware of not simply location anymore but they’re following the trend of Facebook Places and the other location-aware social networks by starting to connect to businesses:

twitterLocationAwarenessPopUp1 Twitter is Now Place as Well as Location Aware

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 Twitter is Now Place as Well as Location Aware


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