The popularity of location based applications is on the rise with the global introduction to the likes of Foursquare and Yelp!. Though it seems many have forgotten Twitter has been location aware for some time now.
Twitter gives you the option of enabling Geotagging in your account settings (see image below). Once enabled, third party applications will add a link to your location along with your tweets. (Note that these will only be visible on third party applications and not on the Twitter website).
Now whenever you post a tweet from Tweetie, TweetDeck or a number of other applications on your mobile device, users will be able to see where you were when you made your tweet.
Another cool little feature is that you can track your tweets on Google Maps. All you need to do is go to Google Maps and type in your Twitter feed address, which will look something like this: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/yesterdayshero.rss (you can see an example of this here).
Bing Maps Beta offers quite a nice Twitter specific service, however it does involve you installing Silverlight (ahh Microsoft). You can see an example of the results here.
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