Twitter and Facebook are going to add features due to which users will be able to share their location with friends. It became known that Facebook is reportedly going to launch the feature and twitter is ready to make any alterations on its site at any moment.
Next month the users of Facebook can take advantage of friend location information. As it was mentioned before a user will be able to share his location with his friends.
Nowadays one can count more than 400 million Facebook users and about 100 million update status from their smartphones. Due to location information the social network will target at small business advertisers.
As for Twitter, it is also going to include geolocation features. At present the users are able to attach their location info to tweets, but still you will be unable to view the feature on the site.
In fact, it is hard to understand the way the geolocation feature of Facebook is going to work. But Twitter demonstrated the work of its feature when it was shown on Tuesday. The geolocation feature of Twitter will display maps that overlay individual tweets on the main stream.
A big number of services began to include geolocation, moreover, it is considered to be a big deal for social networks.
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