Good Luck Tagging Your Specific Location on Twitter Anymore
Twitter’s sense of place is getting fuzzier: At the end of last week, the service appears to have dropped a location-tagging feature it added in 2015, leaving users unable to mark a tweet at a spot more precise than a neighborhood.
This option, based on the location-data firm Foursquare’s platform, let people geotag a tweet with a specific venue in Foursquare’s vast database by tapping the pushpin icon below a tweet. Now, tapping that button offers much less specific identifiers—“Midtown South” in Manhattan(Opens in a new window) instead of a particular coffee shop there, for example.
Andrew Logan, a Washington-based audio/video engineer who runs the @HelicoptersOfDC account, called out this apparent cutback in a tweet on Thursday(Opens in a new window), asking Foursquare’s @FoursquareDevs account if it could confirm this development.
“Something did change.. Tweets don't have #location on them,” @FoursquareDevs replied(Opens in a new window) to Logan and Twitter’s @TwitterDev account. A second reply(Opens in a new window) from that Foursquare account suggested this was all Twitter’s doing, because its own software frameworks remained operational for partner companies: “We know our APIs are up and available. @Twitter
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