Twitter buys Mixer Labs(GeoAPI)

Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs. The creators of GeoAPI just excited to announce a major new step into the location-aware future about this. Now Mixer Labs is part of Twitter and will be working to combine the contextual relevance of location to tweets.

After previewed expanded location support for developers and launched Geotagging API with support from some of the top Twitter clients. The developers will be able to harness the GeoAPI engine to add relevant location information and with this service, user will also be able to search where an event is happening or searching your friend and local bussiness.

The Mixer Labs crew has been working on harnessing the power of local information for a couple years and just recently launched GeoAPI, a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications. They look forward to building features together that will make Twitter even more interesting and relevant to your daily life, no matter where you are. The Mixer Labs crew will join to Twitter Headquarters in San Franciso, CA.

Mixer Labs team includes people who built major components of Google's infrastructure like iGoogle, and Google Mobile Maps. They are experience building scalable systems to make 100's of gigs of Geo data available with sub 50 millisecond response times.