A little over a month ago, Twitter announced that it would be attaching locations to tweets in an effort to become a stronger geolocation tool. The company said that it would attach a latitude and a longitude to a user's tweets, if they opted into the geolocation feature. But nobody knew when the feature would go live.
It seems that the microblogging company is now ready to roll out its location-based feature. According to Twitter's Raffi Krikorian, Twitter has begun to implement geolocation in apps. This is the first step before a site-wide rollout.
In his post on the Twitter Development Talk, Raffi explains some of the steps in the process of enabling Twitter apps with the new geolocation API. While important, the bigger revelation is that they've deployed the feature for internal testing (thus, only a select group of apps, like Tweetie 2, will have the feature for now). Soon though, they'll activate the feature for everyone.