Facebook may not be quite ready to commit to location-based services (at least not until April), but Twitter is making no bones about jumping onto the super-hot trend. The site today added another question to its long-standing “What's Happening" prompt: “Where Are You?"
Twitter today rolled out the feature for number of users. Logging onto the service brings up a dialog box reading “Tweet your location." Once enabled, the site will attempt discover your location using Google Gears. Then a small pin icon appears on the information line of your latest tweet. Hover over it, and a Google Map pops up with your location in the middle.
Users aren't forced to opt into the feature, fortunately, though the two options in the dialog box are “Turn Location On" and “Not Now," seemingly marking a march toward the inevitable. If users opt not to turn on the location, a prompt appears below the tweet field on their Twitter homepage.
Twitter today rolled out the feature for number of users. Logging onto the service brings up a dialog box reading “Tweet your location." Once enabled, the site will attempt discover your location using Google Gears. Then a small pin icon appears on the information line of your latest tweet. Hover over it, and a Google Map pops up with your location in the middle.
Users aren't forced to opt into the feature, fortunately, though the two options in the dialog box are “Turn Location On" and “Not Now," seemingly marking a march toward the inevitable. If users opt not to turn on the location, a prompt appears below the tweet field on their Twitter homepage.
