Twitter Launches New Tool to Share Location Details

Now Twitter can automatically reveal your whereabouts, activities and thoughts to the world.

On Thursday Twitter added an additional feature which helps the user to include their localities with assorted musings published on the messaging service

Tracking tool must be turned on to include the localities. This technology that shadows people through the web browsers are turned off when required.

This comes about as Twitter’s response to the growing reputation of Internet services like Gowalla, Loopt and Foursquare which relay people’s locality

Around 73 million users of Twitter have already revealed their localities in their tweets or messages. This is actually a waste of space as normally tweets are limited to 140 characters.

Locality sharing has become common nowadays. PleaseRobMe web site has recently launched as a reminder that burglars can use to get obtain information to help locate places.

Twitter advices all its users to carefully use the new locality tool.

Firefox 3.5 and Chrome are the browsers in which Twitter’s tracking tool work.