tweet location information

[Zhe Chen]

HI,

On this page,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/02/sports/20090202_superbowl_twitter.html?scp=1&sq=twitter%20baseball%20map&st=cse

Do you know what kind of information are they using to locate the
tweets? To be specific, there are many tags about location
information.

Thanks

[Augusto Santos]

Hi,

I don't understand very well your last question about "many tags", but using the Search API or Streaming API it's possible to identify the location of a tweets, the location of a user and/or search for multiple tags at same time, since the default binary operator between the tags is OR.

Cheers.

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[Zhe Chen]

I mean when they received search results. The returned data has lots
of information about location. Generally the data is a hash, which has
keys like 'geo', 'place' and 'location'. I am wondering what does
people usually use to locate those tweets. More over, since some
tweets are sent from cell phones, do they have information about which
cell phone tower the user is using?

Thanks

On Jan 18, 11:18 am, Augusto Santos <augu...@gemeos.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't understand very well your last question about "many tags", but using
> the Search API or Streaming API it's possible to identify the location of a
> tweets, the location of a user and/or search for multiple tags at same time,
> since the default binary operator between the tags is OR.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Zhe Chen <chenzhe....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > HI,
>
> > On this page,
>

> >http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/02/sports/20090202_superbo...

[Matt Harris]

Hi Zhe,

The information is provided by the application making the status/update API call. How that information is gathered is application and device specific.

It could be manually chosen by the user of the application, or identified using the GPS in the device. Some devices may choose to use the IP of the device.

Whichever method is used the API only captures the lat/long or place_id. 

Extra information such as the cell phone tower is not included or supported by Twitter.

Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris