Dear Twitter,
By now, even inhabitants of the remotest corners of the world will have heard the hue and cry over Apple's new Maps app. But as wonky as Maps may be when it comes to the actual locations of some towns and landmarks, as far as we can tell, it does not misplace whole countries.

[NOTE: Visit http://blog.xm-asia.com/2012/10/11/open-letter-to-twitter-its-time-to-put-singapore-on-your-map/ for additional screenshots.]

Sadly, this is more than we can say for Twitter's location services platform. Anyone who's Tweeted with their location from within Singapore will have noticed that Twitter does not recognize our existence. Instead, Tweets generated from within our country appear as though they've been sent from Johore, a city in Malaysia.

For those unfamiliar with Southeast Asia, Singapore is a small island nation located just north of the equator. We've been an independent republic since 1965 and, today, the industry of our highly diverse, multicultural population of just over 5 million has made Singapore the third richest nation in the world (on a per capita basis), with the world's fourth leading financial center and, depending on who's measuring, the busiest container port on the planet.

We've worked hard to make Singapore the vibrant metropolis it is today and, as a small company yourself that's worked very hard to thrive in a dynamic sector filled with larger players, we hope you'll understand why we feel so strongly that our nationhood be recognized.

We tried to resolve this issue via your standard support channels, but to no avail. So now we're working to rally the support of at least 10,000 of our fellow Singaporeans to show you that this matters to your users here. Our request is simple: Tweets with location generated from within Singapore should list Singapore as their location. Seems obvious, no?

Facebook recognizes us, as do Foursquare, Instagram, Google+, Path and pretty much every other social platform that uses location. So it's time to step up, Twitter, and put Singapore on your map!

Sincerely,
Twitter Users in Singapore
#SGisNotJohore