WeFi, part Wi-Fi hotspot mapping and recommendation engine and part location-based networking service, launched a Twitter mashup today that will let users receive notices of friends’ positions within the WeFi framework as part of their incoming Twitter feeds. WeFi members need only add their Twitter account information to their user profiles to start receiving such alerts and vice versa.
WeFi is a database currently charting more than 960,000 points on a global spectrum, spanning San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and many places elsewhere.
Some may find WeFi’s Twitter mashup somewhat redundant, given that Twitter is in and of itself, an often ideal platform for alerting friends of one’s location. But given that Twitter has come to be a service where some users have stacked hundreds, even thousands of followers, the ability to form more tightly-knit social circles within the WeFi network could prove useful. This could allow close friends to spread the news of, say, a cafe break, without having to involve the public at large.