On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:33:54 -0800 (PST), Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote:
The Search API is greedy with those location fields on user's
profiles. It's not likely this behavior will be emulated in the
Streaming API with the bright side that you can be more confident in
the location accuracy in matches on the Streaming API.

Thanks,
Taylor

I wouldn't call the Search API "greedy" on location as much as I'd call it "myopic" or "easily confused". ;-) Twitalyzer is now getting some of their location data from PeerIndex when the Twitter profile isn't accurate.
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