Tweets To Get Detailed Location After Twitter AndFoursquare Deal

Tweets To Get Detailed Location After Twitter And Foursquare Deal

Twitter is reportedly working on providing its users with relevant information, which will sit nicelywith the real-time aspect of this microblogging network, and to make that happen the companywants to add a layer of detailed location information to tweets. According to a published reporttoday Twitter and Foursquare are taking about a possible deal which could bring location to tweetsnext year.

Citing a source familiar with the deal, Business Insider reports that talks are underway and thesefeatures could arrive "as soon as the first quarter."

This report about talks between Twitter and Foursquare comes at a time when the former is alsoindependently hiring in its location department, with as many as six job listings for this departmentstill up on its website.

As its stands Twitter's location features aren't reallypowerful. The location from where a user signs in canbe determined, apart from the location that a userprovides in their bio. Twitter reportedly wants to beable to determine from where each tweet originates.

The features that could be introduced as a result ofthis partnership include check-ins similar to Foursquare, recommendations about local businesses

and surfacing content according to a user's location.

A Twitter spokesperson didn't acknowledge that a partnership with Foursquare is unlikely but addedthat for the microblogging network location is a "vehicle of discovery." Similarly, a Foursquarespokesperson also declined to comment on the possibility of this partnership.