3 Reasons Why I Won’t Use Twitter’s Geolocation Feature

0Daniel Ionescu • 22nd Aug 2009 • PC World

Twitter’s upcoming geolocation feature is a nifty idea — but mainly in theory. A quick look at the applications of Twitter geolocation could give those close to you, and not only those people, some ideas of taking advantage of the service to your detriment.

Soon arriving at a Twitter client near you (and online), Twitter geolocation can attach information about your current location to each tweet you send to the world. Whether you are out and about or just at home, the whole Twitter community can see your approximate position.

Twitter geolocation, though, is not the first service of its kind. Google’s Latitude works in a similar way as well. However, when Twitter geolocation is launched, the feature will be disabled by default. So here are three reasons why I won’t press the “enable” button.v