Interesting. How is it that in the sample status the geo is null and the place is not null? How is the place determined if there is no geo data?
Does this mean that status can have place object not null even when the geo is null? On Oct 12, 6:13 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For countries where Geo is supported twitter.com allows you to set the > location you are tweeting from. The place chosen on this screen is the > one entered as the place information in a Tweet. For other > applications this information is set by passing the place_id parameter > when Tweeting. (More info:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update) > > A quick request for the status from @twitterapi includes an example of > the place attribute: > twurl > "/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&trim_user=1&count=1" > > [ > { > "coordinates": null, > "favorited": false, > "created_at": "Tue Oct 12 17:40:03 +0000 2010", > "truncated": false, > "text": "Snowflake is on ice for the moment so no new IDs yet. > We'll post an update to the developer mailing list with more > information soon.", > "contributors": [ > 777925 > ], > "annotations": null, > "id": 27159735506, > "retweet_count": 0, > "geo": null, > "retweeted": false, > "in_reply_to_user_id": null, > "user": { > "id": 6253282 > }, > "source": "web", > "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, > "place": { > "name": "Twitter HQ", > "country": "The United States of America", > "country_code": "US", > "attributes": { > "street_address": "795 Folsom St" > }, > "url": "http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/247f43d441defc03.json";, > "id": "247f43d441defc03", > "bounding_box": { > "coordinates": [ > [ > [ > -122.400612831116, > 37.7821120598956 > ], > [ > -122.400612831116, > 37.7821120598956 > ], > [ > -122.400612831116, > 37.7821120598956 > ], > [ > -122.400612831116, > 37.7821120598956 > ] > ] > ], > "type": "Polygon" > }, > "full_name": "Twitter HQ, San Francisco", > "place_type": "poi" > }, > "in_reply_to_status_id": null > } > ] > > Hope that helps, > > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM, D. Smith <emai...@sharedlog.com> wrote: > > I have seen this field in streaming api, but never got a chance to see > > any actual data for this field. Can someone explain to me what usually > > will be the the "place" when it's not null? > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
