Founder Biz Stone wants to take Twitter local

Twitter co-founder is hoping to make the social networking site more localized, reports CNBC. Twitter now allows for users to opt if they want their location attached to a tweet or not, thus making the service a slowly growing enterprise.

However, Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, believes that localized tweets could be beneficial to the company's followers. The Twitter blog explains "if you're like everyone at the Twitter office, you're going crazy about the world cup. When turning to Twitter to keep up with the current game, it helps to know where a Tweet is coming from--is that person watching the game on TV or is he actually in the stadium?"

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