Twitter adds places, will it boost newsiness?

You can now attach a place to a tweet on Twitter, such as the “Space Needle” or your favorite corner restaurant. You can also click a place within a tweet to see all the other recent tweets attached to that place, as well as Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins. The functionality will soon roll out for the Twitter iPhone app, as well as the API.

The big question for local news organizations: will tweets associated with places have a higher potential to be about the place, rather than just some some random comment, like “I’m eating a really good sandwich?” In other words, will places allow better filtering to identify news? Good question. We’ll know in a few weeks.

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