Comments on: Twitter Wants to Capture LBS Mojo

By: Twitter’s Evan Williams Tight-Lipped About Rev Model, Notes U.S. Traffic Has Slowed

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:58:03 +0000

[...] said during a talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon, but that the company was launching new things that “will pick that back [...]

By: Union Square Ventures Injects $1.35M Into FourSquare

Union Square Ventures Injects $1.35M Into FourSquare — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:53:05 +0000

[...] By Jennifer Martinez | Friday, September 4, 2009 | 4:52 PM PT | 0 comments FourSquare, the startup behind the popular LBS mobile application of the same name, has received $1.35 million in first round funding led by Union Square Ventures and including O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Union Square Ventures is also an investor in Twitter, which is launching its own LBS feature in the coming weeks. [...]

By: Natalie Michelson

Natalie Michelson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:03:37 +0000

I’m really excited about this and think it is an awesome idea! Something like Twitter can really give power, reach and exposure to small local-level businesses. From what I’ve seen it is is the much larger corportions that have really been experimenting with Twitter (which is great) but with a real-time service that can be easily hooked up with your mobile wouldn’t it be even nicer for local places to let you know if you should stop by on your way from work to get a “2 for 1″ deal of the day or pick up the last of something that is on clearance?

By: Arun Vijayan

Arun Vijayan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:22:17 +0000

I have been hearing rumors about it for long. Good that it is coming up finally. It is going to make Twitter ultra local (which is already local).

It is not clear how the data is collected for location resolving. Are they into some partnership with companies like Skyhook?