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The geolocation feature is now live for third-party Twitter developers

Written by IT News on 9:41 PM

The geolocation feature is now live for third-party Twitter developers
Twitter is touting the upcoming geolocation feature for a while now. Announced more than a month ago, the tools for living, at least for developers, somewhere last week, but some issues pushed him back a few days. It seems now live, even though Twitter is not doing any actual announcement, with the function displayed in an iPhone Twitter app.

TechCrunch first noticed that the location markers shown in Tweetie 2 began, one prospective Twitter client app for the iPhone that have not been released publicly yet. App took over the new possibilities geolocation Twitter worked, but the code is in the service to go live with no real way to test. The fact that all the tweets now had a place in connection with them meant that geolocation worked on Twitter. The micro-blogging site has since confirmed that the functionality is now available for external developers who use the Twitter API.

There was a small problem, however, most tweets seem to come from the middle of the ocean from the southern coast of Ghana in the Atlantic. In fact, the place was exactly 0 degrees latitude 0 degrees longitude, and so there was clearly some kind of glitch. It seems that the API documentation was uneven, the tweets that had no location data to process, so it seems they just default to 0, 0.

The Geolocation feature was first announced in August and tweets State to their own location information, which has many potential applications. Third-party developers will be the first to use geolocation, but eventually it will be too Twitter.com. Twitter is very concerned about the privacy implications and great attention to these issues with the users full control over what they broadcast. It was the start of last week, but it was not quite finished and it seems to live. Twitter can do some form of communication to a certain point.

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Twitter settles suit with Tony La Russa

Written by IT News on 10:37 PM

Twitter has apparently settled out of court with Tony La Russa, manager of St. Louis Cardinal Major League Baseball team, after a match earlier this week in connection with the infringement of trademark.

A Twitter user a false account of La Russa's name and used it to write tweeter that later found very offensive. The administrator contacted the social networking site to remove the account, but he maintains it never responded, even after several weeks. This leads him to file a suit accusing Twitter infringement of the mark as this page had the name of the user, in this case, Tony La Russa in its URL. He also claimed that the tweeter him "significant emotional distress" when she comment on two Cardinal pitchers who died.

The settlement was reached very quickly and apparently Twitter will only La Russa to cover legal costs and perhaps a donation to the Animal Rescue Foundation, director of charity or animal shelter. La Russa insisted that the suits on trademark infringement, despite earlier comments of its representatives. "... The biggest misconception was that it was someone using Twitter to be critical of me," La Russa told Post Dispatch centers. "I'm tired of the critics. You cannot sue someone who criticizes you. It was the view which I or we were angry at the criticism. No, it was an improper use of the name."

It is good to know that the suit was so short that the reasons were unclear at best. Twitter user conditions require that parody accounts are allowed, and the U.S. legislation does not keep websites responsible for the content of their users offer. But Twitter has decided to cheaper alternatives and perhaps gains some positive publicity after donating to animal charities.

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