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.
>
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