Ed,

Thanks for the email, answers inline below...

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM, @epc<epcoste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Will twitter validate the coordinates (ie, what will the API do when I
> pass lat=777&long=-666)?
>
> If the coordinates are invalid, will the status get posted or will the
> entire request get rejected with a 4xx code?

status will get posted and invalid data will get dropped

>
> If a user has not enabled geolocating (<geo_enabled>false</
> geo_enabled>), what happens if I pass in coordinates for that user?
> Silently ignored?

correct, if geo is not enabled we will silently ignore the lat and long data

>
> Geo data will be attached to individual tweets and not users, right?
> This will have no effect on the <location> field in a user profile?

correct, the tweet-level geotagging is separate from profile-level location

> --
> -ed costello
>

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