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If you were a twitter IM addict, I have some bad news for you. After a long struggle to fix bugs and issues with Instant Messaging, twitter has finally accepted their short comings and have removed twitter messaging.

During recent months, twitter has been seeing huge traffic and popularity which its basic architecture was never prepared. Even after the development team trying out various fixes, the issues and bugs never seemed to fade out. It just increased!

And guess what twitter did? It removed IM functionality completely stating that it does not want to deliver a flawed product. Twitter would further work on improving the code, which is now open source and provide a flawless product.

Twitter is also encouraging third-party applications built using Twitter API to be used by Twitter IM users. However, except Excla.im, there are not much third-parties who have impressive applications created based on Twitter.

Twitter For Location or the FireEagle platform has open APIs which can send and receive data. It can stream your location information. This can help third party web services gather vital information about your location even without asking from you.

FireEagle, built entirely on Ruby on Rails, a open source framework is an insight from the search product from Yahoo, ZoneTag. This platform would provide information on where you live, the city name, the zip code and can control peoples information on their location.

FireEagle also provides privacy features where a user can log off tracking of their geo location and can also delete all information stored related to their travel. This would be greatly useful in mobile applications like cell phones and Nokia phones with Symbian s60 might carry one of these.