Don, Twitter is intent on merging the Search and REST APIs at which point searches will return full user objects.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap#MergingRESTandSearchAPIs Abraham On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 22:10, don <host.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > yes. I realise this is added by the user. > > What I was wondering is if there is any way to have this data passed > back in the return data for a "word" search or weather I would need to > make seperate calls for each user to access it? > > On Feb 12, 2:20 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > each user has a location field associated with it - but that is self > > reported. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM, don <host.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. Thats what I was thinking. > > > > > Would there be any way to return the location data of user with the > > > search results for a word? > > > > > So that I didn't need to make seperate calls for each user? > > > > > thanks so much for your help. > > > > > On Feb 12, 3:20 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > twitter only returns data back in its "geo" field if the tweet has > been > > > > explicitly geotagged. > > > > > > search, however, attempts to use other signals to determine where the > > > tweet > > > > is, and will attempt to return "more" tweets when you use its > "search" > > > > parameter. it does not, however, expose those signals in the search > > > > results. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, don <host.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > I'm trying to determine the location where a tweet came from. > > > > > > > I know you can do a search specifying the location you want to look > at > > > > > and this checks againist any geo data and then against the location > > > > > data. I'm guessing that twitter does a lot of error checking and > > > > > transforms the location data into a geo coord on the backend when > you > > > > > do this search. > > > > > > > My question is: if I do a search for say a "word" and get my > results > > > > > back I want to be able to check where each of the returned tweets > came > > > > > from. Not just using the geo data that the user may have allowed > but > > > > > also the location data (just like the search for location based > tweets > > > > > does). > > > > > > > Essentially getting back a geo coord for each tweet if there is any > > > > > releveant geo data or location data given by the tweeter. > > > > > > > this site would be doing something similar:http://trendsmap.com/ > > > > > > > any ideas? sorry if this is really obvious, I have searched and > just > > > > > can't find it. > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > don > > > > > > -- > > > > Raffi Krikorian > > > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi > > > > -- > > Raffi Krikorian > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi > -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
