In a recent development Twitter, finally launched its much awaited Geolocation API letting users to have messages annotated with their specific locations and the importance of this application can be understood from the fact that last week’s release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages has ample to offer in terms of data analysis. This data can be mixed up with another larger collection of data and easily results into a useful application for assessing locations.

And importance of this location data is enhanced with another development, where results for Twitter search has  been added into Yahoo News searches, further more Twitter Data is now used by all the three major search engines and Google definitely would have great plans for this data.  Apart form the great analysis perspective, this data can be used by a common user in variety of ways and methods. It can inform you about all including public event, great wine shops, restaurant reviews, notable landmarks, crime rates, apartment for rent, etc. More this data can be further on used in local interest survey tool, news reporter, informer for a cop, politics and marketing, etc.