Hi Ryan,
You are correct that you should be able to do this using the /geo/search
request. There is a known issue at the moment that POIs are always returned,
making it hard to find city matches. We have a fix that's being tested now
for that. If you want to file this on the issue tracker
I was working with the place search method:
http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/search.json?query=Portland,%20ORgranularity=city
But, I'm only getting place results with type = poi
What's the preferred way to get the place id of a city?
I was able to get it with a lat/long:
