Coffee. Cool. Food. Policy. Where are the Good Mobile Coupons? Headed out to do some shopping and looking for a few good deals?
Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and their accompanying mobile applications, the ability to access geo-targeted coupons from nearby merchants on your handheld device is easier than ever. Or is it? What Twitter Places Means for the Future of Location. Despite the bungled launch and short hiatus, Twitter Places is back in action.
The feature has huge implications for the geo-location space and the location-sharing movement. Places is a big improvement on Twitter's previous geo-location offering, which was never widely adopted or embraced by the majority of users. Whereas before users had to adjust their settings and agree to posting every single tweet with their geo-coordinates, now Twitterers are presented with an elegant way to attach a place to their tweet, one tweet at a time.