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Article Source: Computerworld

People logging on to their Twitter accounts this morning found a new feature waiting for them.

The micro-blogging site had disclosed last night that the new Local Trends feature would be added to the site today. It’s designed to keep Twitter users up to date with the hottest topics being Twittered in a specific geographic location.

Pick Your Location On Twitter

“Local Trends will allow you to learn more about the nuances in our world and discover even more relevant topics that might matter to you,” wrote Twitter’s Jenna Dawn on the company’s blog site. “The big events that come up around the world will always become a global conversation, but what about the big events that only happen in your world that only matter to those around you? Or the slight differences in the way Californians perceive an event, like Obama’s election victory, versus those Sao Paulo, Brazil?”

Right now, there aren’t many locations — users initially have only 13 cities and six countries around the world to choose from.

Twitter may need such new to keep its users engaged on the site. RJMetrics, Inc. yesterday released a study showing that the number of Twitter users has climbed to a lofty 75 million, but that the growth rate of new users is slowing. The study also found that a lot of current Twitterers are inactive.

According to the findings, only 17% of all Twitter accounts Twittered last month. That’s down from more than 70% in early 2007 when Twitter was a fledgling company with far, far fewer users.

The report said that Twitter has between 10 million and 15 million active tweeters.

Article Source: Mirror.co.uk news

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Twitter announced it was planning to add location data to tweets back in August. Now the geolocation functionality is complete and you can give permission for Twitter to take down your movements.

Giving location information to Twitter is an opt-in process. To enable Twitter’s function to add geographic information to your tweets, you simply have to hop over to the Account section at Twitter.com.

Scroll down and you’ll find the location section of the Twitter settings. There’s a checkbox to enable geotagging and big friendly button that will allow you to delete all your historical location data, just in case your being tracked by assassins or you know, just relish your privacy.

Twitter’s also tweaked its privacy policy to include the new geotagging feature. It also reiterates to users that items posted to Twitter are public unless they make their Twitter stream private.

Twitter’s geolocation features do not actually work on Twitter.com yet however but will rolled out as part of third party applications like Tweetdeck over the next few weeks.

The addition of geolocation information to tweets should also mean that Twitter is able to create more effective local lists of trending topics.

we-love-the.net/Stweet

Stweet is a fun mash-up between twitter and google street view.

Why just post your tweets on a map,  when you can tweet and show a street view of where you are ?

Isn’t that fun ?

Give it a try and test it out ,in the best city by far is San Francisco, with a high volume of Tweets.

A dropdown menu lets you browse various US cities, and you can see if there are Tweets from countries not listed by changing the end of the URL to “city,country”. For instance, this is the URL for Tweets in Vancouver, Canada.