Facebook, Twitter Ready Location-Based Features

From PC World: Facebook and Twitter are preparing to flip the switch on features that will allow you to share your location with your friends at any time. Facebook is reportedly revving up to introduce the feature, while Twitter is ready to enable the changes on its site any moment now.

Facebook will add friend location information starting next month, according to a report in The New York Times. To be introduced at the F8 developer conference in April, Facebook status geolocation will enable you to share with your friends the location from where you submitted your update.

There are over 400 million Facebook users, and around 100 million of them update their status from mobile devices such as smartphones. In this context, location information attached to your status would enable the social network to target small business advertisers.

But Facebook status geolocation information has another rival just around the corner. Twitter, which posts over 50 million 140-characters long messages per day, is also prepared to flip the switch on geolocation features. Twitter is already allowing users of 3rd party clients to attach their location info to tweets, but the feature is notably missing from the site itself.

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