Twitter has enhanced geolocation services provided on its messaging service by buying Mixer Labs, the company said on Wednesday.

Mixer Labs, founded by a couple of former Google employees, developed a location-tracking tool called GeoAPI. Developers will be able to harness the GeoAPI engine to add relevant location information to Twitter messages. Such a service could help audiences receive Twitter messages based on location, the company wrote.

Twitter CEO Evan Williams thinks GeoAPI could prove helpful by showing where people are as they share what they are seeing or experiencing. About 58 million people around the world use Twitter, which accommodates messages of no more than 140 characters.

About this bill, until now, Twitter has not responded to comment on how much it paid for Mixer Labs.

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