>
> I'll be interested to hear when the API adds functionality that'll
> allow us to retrieve *only* tweets with a geopoint! Any hints?
>
"soon" :P
> In the meantime; copyied from the first post, what is going on with
> tweets like this? :
> {
> * location: "iPhone: 37.313690,-122.022911"
> * geo: null
> }
>
> {
> * location: "ÜT: 37.293106,-121.969004"
> * geo: null
> }
>
> Presumably this is some developer-implemented work around from a
> client that geotagged tweets before the geotagging API was available,
> by setting the profile location (where it normally says London, UK
> etc.) to co-ords?
> If so, I will just ignore it, as these should in theory become less
> and less common as developers update their apps to use the official
> geotagging method, but I want to be sure that I'm not missing some
> crucially geotagged tweets!
>
yeah - that's precisely what's happening. i'm not sure what the first
client is, but the second is ubertwitter. instead of sending geotweets,
they are simply setting the user's profile location. my hope is that people
will transition soon!
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi
