I'm not sure what Twitter's mobile client does on the Android - I've
stopped using it. But Seesmic appears to do a GPS call each time I
post a tweet. I haven't cycled through all three of the location
options available with Froyo, but I do see the little GPS icon flash
every time I post a tweet in Seesmic.
On a desktop / laptop, or on the Android using mobile.twitter.com,
it's more complicated, and Twitter's interactions with the browser
sometimes don't work at all. I can do a "search for place" and
sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I'm sure the location
folks inside Twitter have log files they can use to diagnose these
issues.
The net effect from my point of view is that Twitter's location
offering is not solid, stable and end-user-friendly as yet. Yes, some
of the clients are broken too, but Twitter's servers aren't *always*
responding *correctly* to legitimate requests.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
Quoting Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>:
These are generally saved once by mobile-based Twitter clients, as you've
surmised!
Taylor
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:17 AM, brentos <brent.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know from where these come? I'm speaking of the lat/lons
in the actual "Location" field of the user, not the new per-tweet
location stuff. It appears to be fixed for the vast majority of users
to a single latitude and longitude. Do certain clients insert this
once and then leave it?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
- Brent
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