hi raffi, this is great. +1 on being about to query trends by lat, lng, radius (or using a bounding box spatial query)
this might help what i am doing with GeoMeme - http://www.geome.me which currently uses the Yahoo Term Extraction API to work out trending topics at *any* lat / lng position. keen to hear your thoughts on GeoMeme if you are willing / able. keep up the geo! cheers, bob On Nov 10, 9:13 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > We've heard from lots of users that trending topics, as seen on the > twitter.com homepage and on search.twitter.com, are a fun way to > figure out what's going on in the Twitter-verse at this very instant. > The one feature request that we've heard over and over, however, is > "what's going on where I am?". To answer that, we wanted to give you > all a heads up regarding the new "Trends API" that we're launching. > This API will open up trending information that is specific to a > number of locations around the world. > > At a high level, there will be two new endpoints: > > * an endpoint to give a listing of all locations that trends are > available for, and > * an endpoint to actually allow you to query by a specific location. > > We're using Yahoo!'s Where on Earth IDs (WOEIDs) to name each location > that we have information for -- we're doing so because those IDs give > not only language-agnostic, but also permanent, stable, and unique > identifiers for geographic locations. For example, San Francisco has > a permanent and unique WOEID of 2487956, London has 44418, and the > Earth has WOEID 1. You can find out more about those IDs > athttp://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/ > . The EXAMPLES section at the bottom of the documentation's landing > page shows an example of how to find out the WOEID of a specific place. > > To start reading through the documentation, check out: > > https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-avai...https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-trends-loca... > > It should be noted that at launch, unlike the trends that are > available by the search API, these localized trends will not be rolled > up into daily and weekly trends. Those rollups may come in a future > release. > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
