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Where are Twitter and Facebook’s Geolocation Features?

Source: Mashable!

Feb 05, 2009

Summary

I’ve been playing around with Google Latitude on and off since this morning. I must admit, it’s pretty cool and demonstrates why geolocation is interesting, and services like Loopt and BrightKite have found some success as early players in the space.

But as myself and a lot of other commenters have noted, the problem with Latitude is that Google contacts really aren’t your actual social network in most cases, primarily because of the quirky way in which Gmail adds people to your buddy list. Nonetheless, Google Latitude has me thinking about geolocation again, and more aptly, why the big social networking players – Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter – aren’t doing anything with it.

Why It Would Be Great

Facebook, and to a lesser extent Twitter (and formerly MySpace … it still is for lots of other people), is an actual representation of my social network. And, with the ability to sort contacts into different groups (personal friends, colleagues, high school classmates, etc), the privacy concerns that come with any geolocation-based social network are mostly allev

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Comments (2)

Rorowe,

Feb 06, 2009

My opinion? Keep Twitter simple. It's what got them the overwhelming popularity. There are 3rd-party services that offer geolocation (BrightKite, whirrl, Loopt) that ping Twitter.
By keeping it separate, you have more control over who sees your location and who doesn't.

Drikkes,

Feb 06, 2009

@Rorowe
For Twitter, I totally agree.
But Facebook should think about it. Via FB-Connect isn't really enough, but to integrate into the mobile version, I don't know.