@Ed I think that ought to work as well. I did try doing something like that, however I hit a dead end because I kept getting cached results on querying search. (see topic: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/7a022ad241e44ab3#)
Has anyone else had any success in getting location-based public timelines using search api ? Regards, Elroy On Dec 12, 1:20 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not do a location-based Twitter search and then analyze the > returned tweets? Or am I missing something in what you're trying to > do? > > On Dec 11, 5:16 am, ArtJulian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to build an application around trending topics based on a > > specific location through the public timeline, but would rather not > > filter the timeline on location afterwards. I did notice the Local > > Trends Methods, but I would like to set my own parameters and > > therefore depend on the public timeline to get the recent posts for > > the specific country. > > > Is there a way to request thehttp://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml > > for specific countries and/or locations? I need the most recent status > > posts from a specific location, but I don't want to waste requests by > > deleting most of the data afterwards. > > > Any help would be great! > > > Arthur- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
