Twitter is adding what could become a powerful new source for news and things to do. The company is going to support location-based trends with a new application programming interface, so that users can learn about what others nearby are tweeting about. That could make mash-ups like the one pictured above from Trendsmap quite powerful. (Trendsmap shows the most buzzed about terms on Twitter fo different cities around the world.)
The one feature request that we’ve heard over and over, however, is “what’s going on where I am?”. To answer that, we wanted to give you all a heads up regarding the new “Trends API” that we’re launching. This API will open up trending information that is specific to a number of locations around the world.
Twitter’s using Yahoo!’s Where on Earth IDs (WOEIDs) to name locations, because the company’s markers are language-agnostic and stable. Based on the company’s documentation, it looks like the API will return ten trending terms for a given location
Read the complete article here http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2009/11/09/09venturebeat-twitter-to-support-location-based-trends-wit-29748.html
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