I was going to parse for them. The iPhone client for example, uses GMaps links for location. So I'd parse for those and my own "custom" tiny-url-for-latlng system. But doesn't help obviously unless I can see them in the first place. How do things like twitturly.com do it, statistical sampling?
On Apr 14, 12:24 pm, Andrew Badera <[email protected]> wrote: > Get all posts? Nope. > > Determine geolocation if you had all posts? Not likely. Possible, with some > percentage accuracy or likelihood, but in general, just not likely, unless > you're parsing for lat/long coords specifically ... > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, djMax <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And there's no way for me to get all posts to try and do this myself > > right? > > > On Apr 14, 11:43 am, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As far as I know Twitter does not save any geo data for individual > > tweets. > > > None is available through the API anyways. > > > > On a side note: Laconi.ca is working on adding geolocations for each > > notice. > > > This could be incredibly useful information especially with the increased > > > penetration of geo aware phones. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 22:26, djMax <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > How does Twitter GeoCode tweets OTHER than the users location (if at > > > > all)? I'd like to include short urls for geolocation, but want to > > > > understand how Twitter uses them. Thanks. > > > > -- > > > Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com > > > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > > > Web608 | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org > > > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > > Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
