Twitter's Now Location Aware
written: October 2, 2009It seems as though Twitter is atwitter with news that they now know where you are… It isn’t as bad as it sounds, but TechCrunch is confirming that Twitter is live with its new location based variable which ties a geocode to each tweet! Exciting news; many people, myself included give our location when tweeting by means of third party apps (I know UberTwitter does this for the blackberry).
This new feature isn’t without issues however, it seems as though if a location is sent without a location attached to the new variable some programs interpret it as the coordinates 0,0 which is somewhere off the coast of Africa. I am sure this will all be fixed once everyone understands what is going on. Until then, don’t meet anyone that just tweeted from off the coast of Africa; they do not have a new boat they want to show you!
Sample Code:
1 <status>
2 ...
3 <geo_enabled>true</geo_enabled>
4 <geo xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss";>
5 <georss:Point>37.780300 -122.396900</georss:Point>
6 </geo>
7 </status>
