Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.

Lost amid Thursday's Chrome OS hype was the official launch of Twitter's geotagging feature. Twitter's newest feature allows you to embed your location in the 140-character messages you send out to the world. Whenever you send a tweet with your location information, users will see a map pin at the bottom of your message. Clicking on the pin reveals a Google Map with your location.

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising.

Twitter service Seesmic expands from the desktop with two new apps for Google Android and BlackBerry phones.

Digital music students create a crowdsourced album within the 140-character confines of Twitter by writing short strings of code that can be translated into songs.

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, is generating sales of more than $4 million a year.

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the Internet company that raised venture financing in September valuing the company at $1 billion, is generating sales of more than $4 million a year.

Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $US1b by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $US4m a year.

Twitter has just activated its GeoLocation feature which will let you opt-in whether you want your tweets to be tagged with your current location. The feature is carried not on your Twitter.com account but on third-party Twitter apps which will use the Geolocation API released by Twitter. If you're using Twitter apps such as Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare among others and… Check out the SEO ...

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