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Location Coming to Micro-blogging Service Twitter: A Preview

Author: Dominique Bonte, Vice President and Group Director, Telematics and M2M

Published: 15 Sep 2009

The location industry is entering a new area. Instead of offering separate applications providing specific stand-alone LBS services, location is increasingly positioned as an enabler of existing mobile services. The recent announcement by Twitter to offer a location API to developers is a clear illustration of this trend and heralds a new stage in the evolution of LBS towards mass market adoption. However, while the benefits and potential of adding location are obvious, the transparent use of location poses new challenges related to privacy, security, and monetization.

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the Location Platforms and Enablers Research Service.

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