Many people use UberTwitter from their phone and also tweet from the
web or a desktop client. UT updates the profile location with GPS data
but the browser doesn't. If the source of the tweet is UT chances are
the location is accurate, otherwise it's probably old. If you
desperately need to pin as many tweets on the map as possible you may
want to use this information for the time being.
Diego
On Dec 14, 8:33 pm, redders <redders6...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Raffi,
>
> I'll be interested to hear when the API adds functionality that'll
> allow us to retrieve *only* tweets with a geopoint! Any hints?
>
> 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!
