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The application Twitter 360 makes quickly use of the geotagging ability offered by the Twitter Geotagging API, which was released officially on the 19th of November.
If you want to enable the Geotagging setting for your tweets, you need to go to Settings and click Enable Geotagging.

Below you can view the video which will show the application Twitter 360:

Twitter 360 is an application which basically visualize and locate your Twitter friends by making use of GPS data through the iPhone camera.

The cool features of Twitter 360 can be summarized as following (visit the website of Twitter 360 to read indepth what the features are and the possibility to download the application) :
- Twitter 360 annotates your tweets with GPS location information.
- “Latest Tweets” mode. See the latest tweets of your friends (iPhone horizontal position), and the location from where they were posted (iPhone vertical position) using the Augmented Reality functionality.
- Touch the Star to add your best Twitter friends in your favourites.
- “Locate my Friends” mode. List of all your best friends. Twitter 360 lets you track geographic movements of your friends, you can now see where are located your nearby friends via Augmented Reality.
- When you launch Twitter 350, a small bird will localize your exact position and update the “location” field data on your Twitter account with the coordinates, only if you want.
- The application is fully compatible with Google Map.
- Switch off the geolocalization option in the setting to be in “invisible” mode.

I do wonder how useful this is on the long run, of course it’s a fun new way to experience Twitter, but ge0tagged tweets as deployed in Twitter 360 is only the first step and hopefully useful Location Based Services will be developed which will combine real-time and location into new tools which will enrich the mobile social experience.

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