Twitter Places added to CheckinMania.com

Find out who are tweeting from places around you. Twitter is now one of the options available in checkinmania.com to browse places around and look for any tweets tagged with venues, you might just find some interesting comments/ reviews about the place. You can access this by going to http://checkinmania.com/twitter . Currently twitter has only enabled places for US. If you want your tweets tagged to a restaurant/bar or any place, just use the “add your location” option below the status update box on http://twitter.com.

There are rumors that Facebook is planning to add location feature, expect that to be integrated to CheckinMania.com as soon as APIs are released.

With so many location based services out there, imagine if they all used a common open places database, more interesting apps and visualizations can be developed. A lot of people have been requesting to combine all the services in one map, so that clicking on one venue/place will show tweets from the place, foursquare, gowalla checkins and other reviews, its just not easy to do this unless they all use a standard location database.

(BTW, brightkite is also implemented and functional now, however the data does not look that interesting, looks like not a lot of people are using this service anymore)