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March 5, 2011 02:43 am GMT
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Assq19QZAf4/
Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers
When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup's then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16 million businesses with a reverse-geo-coder and support for geo-coded Tweets, Flickr photos, and even an iPhone SDK. Twitter kept the GeoAPI going after the acquisition"but that ends at the end of March.According to a developer who used to build his product on the GeoAPI, Twitter is shutting it down for outside developers. It is too much of a hassle to maintain, apparently. Twitter will still use it internally for its own apps. (Note that this GeoAPI is not the same as Twitter's more limited Geotagging API, which is still fully functional). So far no announcement on this. It's going in the deadpool. I've reached out to Twitter for a comment.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Assq19QZAf4/
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