Posted on June 15, 2010 by by valerirojas

Twitter has finally announced their new geolocation feature Twitter Places but Twitter.com is currently down. 1:15pm 15th June, Tuesday (EST)

Twitter Places will allow users to use their computers or mobile devices to tag their tweets from the location they are tweeting from, and if your location is not in Twitter places then you will be able to create new Twitter places as well.

It does sound like a great new feature to use, unfortunately Twitter has been down for over an hour and many people are letting Twitter know about it.

Some of the features of this new launch include:

• Foursquare and Gowalla integration: Many Foursquare and Gowalla users publish check-ins to Twitter. Location is a key component of these Tweets, so we worked closely with both companies to associate a Twitter Place with Tweets generated by these services. This means that if you click on a Twitter Place, such as “Ritual Roasters,” you will see standard Tweets and check-ins from Foursquare and Gowalla.
• API: We are releasing API functionality that lets developers integrate Twitter Places into their applications.
• Support for more browsers: Now, you can add location to your Tweets from any browser—Safari and Internet Explorer, in addition to Chrome or Firefox.

I also did a quick search using Google latest search results feature to find out what people were saying about Twitter, surprisingly enough most people didn’t care too much about it.

I have compiled some of the comments from the Google real-time search results here, they are not in any particular order.

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