Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding something like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS.
Anton On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > hi anton. > that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on our > roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID -> > coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to our > API. > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile >> devices that aren't equipped with GPS? >> >> My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to >> obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on >> most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . >> >> It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update >> the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. >> >> Regards, >> Anton > > > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/raffi >
