Re: [twitter-dev] Getting users' location
Hello Marcelo, Semiocast had released some time ago an API that could be used for what you are trying to do. You can look it up here: http://developer.semiocast.com/ More specifically, for a tutorial on using the API on tweets: http://developer.semiocast.com/tutorial/twitter Hope you'll find this interesting. Bear in mind that, as you say, interpreting what the user wrote can sometime be really difficult (even for a human), but statistically we have some decent results. Cheers, Jean-Charles PS: I'm resending this email as the first one did not went through... On 27 avr. 2011, at 18:22, Marcelo Jenisch wrote: Hello everyone, I need to display the location of someone's followers in a map, so he can see the distribution by country of his followers. I couldn't use the location, since it is just a text box where the user can enter anything and it would be pretty complicated to interpret that without some level of error. So my second idea was to use the place info in the user's last tweet, but then I realized that most tweets don't attach such info. So now I'm at a loss. Do I invest time in interpreting the location field, or are there better (easier or more accurate) ways to get such info? It doesn't even need to be down to the city level, as long as I can get a country, it's fine. Thank you all in advance. Best regards, Marcelo -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Getting users' location
Hello everyone, I need to display the location of someone's followers in a map, so he can see the distribution by country of his followers. I couldn't use the location, since it is just a text box where the user can enter anything and it would be pretty complicated to interpret that without some level of error. So my second idea was to use the place info in the user's last tweet, but then I realized that most tweets don't attach such info. So now I'm at a loss. Do I invest time in interpreting the location field, or are there better (easier or more accurate) ways to get such info? It doesn't even need to be down to the city level, as long as I can get a country, it's fine. Thank you all in advance. Best regards, Marcelo -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Getting users' location
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Marcelo Jenisch marc...@inmeta.com.br wrote: Hello everyone, I need to display the location of someone's followers in a map, so he can see the distribution by country of his followers. I couldn't use the location, since it is just a text box where the user can enter anything and it would be pretty complicated to interpret that without some level of error. So my second idea was to use the place info in the user's last tweet, but then I realized that most tweets don't attach such info. So now I'm at a loss. Do I invest time in interpreting the location field, or are there better (easier or more accurate) ways to get such info? It doesn't even need to be down to the city level, as long as I can get a country, it's fine. There are ways you can infer someone's location, but you run the risk of running afoul of privacy laws and terms of service violations for the services you access via APIs or scraping. The correct way to acquire someone's location at any granularity is to *explicitly* ask them for it, *clearly* stating in plain language what they will receive in return. This is a very big deal - just look at all the brouhaha over the iPhone location logging that erupted last week. There's no shortcuts / tricks / games you can play here. You need lawyers and solid business planning. -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdős -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] Getting users' location
Hello, I have the same problem i found some documentation here: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/geo/search but i still looking for a solution for my WP7 Twiiter Client.. so if u did somthing let us hear from u ;) -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
