{"id":11746,"date":"2010-03-12T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T07:07:00","slug":"twitter-unveils-location-sharing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/11746-twitter-unveils-location-sharing-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter unveils location sharing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter users the option of including their location with the assorted musings posted on the Internet messaging service.<\/p>\n<p>Locations won&#8217;t be included unless users turn on the tracking tool. The technology, which shadows people through Web browsers, can be turned off at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is responding to the growing popularity of other Internet services, such as Foursquare and Loopt, that broadcast people&#8217;s locations. Facebook is expected to join the trend soon, too.<\/p>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?220744-Twitter-announces-location-sharing-tweet-tool&amp;p=3691953#post3691953\">Twitter unveils location sharing tool<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Discussion<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}