that's a cool feature, I hope if a tweet has a geo info, that can be shown in twitter.com web.
On Nov 20, 5:51 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > As you may have seen on the Twitter blog [1], geotagging is now > available for all users and developers throughout Twitter's APIs. > Specific geotagging methods have been added and existing formats > expanded to accommodate this rich new information. > > To get started developing with this API and sending geotweets, check out > > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0u... > > Geotweets now carry the geotag whenever available and whenever they > appear in our REST, Search, and Streaming APIs. > > Remember, geotagging is disabled by default on users' accounts. > Encourage your users to enable it by sending them to their settings > page [2]. From that page, a user can turn this feature on by checking > the "Enable geotagging" checkbox. Alternatively, we're also providing > a mobile optimized geotagging settings page [3] that you can send them > too as well. As a developer, you can determine whether a user has > enabled geotagging by calling the users/show method [4] or in any > other <user> element returned by the REST API where a user object > shows up -- just look for the geo_enabled flag. > > For more hints on how to use geotagging, check out our Geotagging Best > Practices page [5] where we have UX mock-ups, hints on how to best > support user privacy, and more. > > We're really excited about this feature! And more is coming. > > Go get lost. We'll send help. > > [1]http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/think-globally-tweet-locally.html > [2]http://twitter.com/account/settings > [3]http://m.twitter.com/account/settings/geo > [4]http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show > [5]http://help.twitter.com/forums/26810/entries/78525 > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
