An international group of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live in a matter of minutes, with more than 90 percent accuracy. It ...

Twitter Places lets people add a specific location to tweets, see who else is tweeting from that spot, and tap into locations from Foursquare and Gowalla. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Finally Twitter will let you see when tweets are from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it’s now ...

The fruits of Twitter’s partnership with Foursquare are finally rolling out on the platform in the shape of precise location feeds. The update is currently being made available to iOS users and allows ...

Two major changes to Twitter are due to arrive soon. One is a revised handling of retweets and the other, much more significant, development is the launch of the Geolocation API. This will allow ...

In a post on its Help Center this afternoon, Twitter has disclosed a bug that caused it to inadvertently collect and share iOS location data with a “trusted partner.” The issue, which has since been ...

Twitter has announced the addition of Places on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com, letting users tag their messages with their location, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Over the next week, ...