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BreakingTweets? No, it’s Twitter Itself
This new feature is a nice fillip on Twitter, but it could be better. If it automatically located you, so you always got what was happening around you instead of what you said your home city was, it might be a very valuable ad-hoc guide to wherever you're opening your laptop. That would require the browser return you location. HTML 5 has geolocation reporting, but support for HTML 5 is only beginning to roll out. Fortunately, some mobile Twitter apps, like TweetDeck, already allow you to see Tweets that are geo-tagged as near you. Also, Twitter would be wise to put this feature on the Twitter.com pre-sign-in home page, to make it more clear to new users what Twitter has to offer them.
via Twitter adds local trends to Web site | Webware – CNET.
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Craig Kanalley, Editor, on BreakingTweets at Six Months
Originally, Breaking Tweets was to be nothing more than a personal blog, telling a few major stories around the world every day through the use of Twitter.
It blossomed into something so much more.
It’s been 750 posts, 6,000 featured tweets, and 150,000 unique visitors (320,000 pageviews) from 194 countries since then — and more than 100 news organizations around the world have visited the site since it began, including Reuters, Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times — but none of this has gone to my head.
via Letter from the editor: Breaking Tweets turns six months old | Breaking Tweets.
