Twitter, the 140 character long blog site, has some new tools that you might or might not know about. The one that caught my eye is Where.com's GPS Twitter. This is part of where.com, not twitter.com. When it is used, it tells you from where (via GPS in the cell phone) a tweet was posted. For use by adults, this could be useful. If your teen is likely to try something new like this, be sure they are aware what it means to be able to be found.
Having friends and family know where you are is one thing, but quite another if it is someone you don't know or don't want to know. Hopefully this is good information for you to know what is out there. Since teens aren't using Twitter as much as adults, so this may not be anything to worry about for your family. But as the Internet evolves, new functionality like this gets shared over many sites.
What do you think about this feature? Could it help your family keep track of where everyone is?
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Posted Sep 28th 2009 6:58AM by Francis Duncan
Filed under: Internet Safety Tips, Sharing Info Online, Social Networking, Parental Controls, Articles of Interest
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software development company 11-19-2009 @ 1:29PM
Cool,
Another reason why i am never going to give twitter the time of day...
Thanks for writing about it
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