I apologize if this has been previously covered, but it appears that explicit geotag info is not shown for any tweet returned via the search API, regardless of whether a user has authorized public geo reporting.
As a result, it is possible to determine what is being said in a specific location, but it is not possible to determine where people are talking about a specific subject. I understand you not wanting to show all the signals that lead to a geo search match, but I can't grok why you're witholding specific metadata from the search results. Any light you can shed would be valuable to my customers. Any plans to change this policy would be rad. Thanks! Eric (on my iPhone. Sorry for typeos) On Feb 11, 8:20 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
