Twitter has apparently turned on its Geo-location API so users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with
last week's release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages for analysis. "You take this data, mash it up with any other very large corpus of data with timestamps ... and you've got a web app,"
Flip Kromer of data marketplace Infochimps tells ReadWriteWeb. Today's announcement of the availability of location data means something similar, i.e., people can take this data, mash it up with any
other data with location information and get an app. From Digg or StumbleUpon for one's favorite coffee shop to political and disease tracking, possibilities abound.
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