Most users don't geotag their tweets. If they don't opt-in, the information isn't available.
-John On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:34 AM, gm <gmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using the twitter stream api to access the sample of public > tweets. > For each tweet I need to know the latitude and longitude location from > where the tweet was sent. I am looking up that information in the > "geo" tag/field. But I observed that even if the "geo_enabled" field > is set to true, the "geo" field is set to null for many tweets. Will > appreciate if you can help me understand why this is the case. > > Also will appreciate if you can help me figure out if there is a > better way to find the latitude and longitude location from where the > tweet was sent by the user. > > thanks and I greatly appreciate your help with this! > > gm >
