{"id":864,"date":"2009-12-29T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2016-06-07T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:00:02","slug":"twitter-strengthens-geolocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/twitter\/twitter-strengthens-geolocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Strengthens GeoLocation Tools With Mixer Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is adding to their geolocation technology through their purchase of Mixer Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Mixer Labs&#8217; GeoAPI is a tool that helps developers create geolocation-specific applications for the Twitter messaging service.<\/p>\n<p>The technology will allow Twitter users to identify the location where a tweet was posted from.<\/p>\n<p>The GeoAPI tool can track the location of tweets on Twitter. Location software that uses the GeoAPI could allow people to receive Twitter messages based on location-specific tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Adding location-based data to tweets could help with issues like tracking friends or locating businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Twitter launched a geotagging tool for their social network.<\/p>\n<p>[ Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/dec2009\/tc20091224_173986.htm\">Business Week<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is adding to their geolocation technology through their purchase of Mixer Labs. Mixer Labs&#8217; GeoAPI is a tool that helps developers create geolocation-specific applications for the Twitter messaging service. The technology will allow Twitter users to identify the location where a tweet was posted from. The GeoAPI tool can track the location of tweets [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/twitter\/twitter-strengthens-geolocation\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Twitter Strengthens GeoLocation Tools With Mixer Labs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}