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People want to talk

about places

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Whats happening here?

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Original attempts

Adding it to the tweet

Setting profile level locations

Use myloc.me, et. al. to add text to the tweet Localizes mobile phone and puts location in band Takes from 140 characters

Set the user/location of a Twitter user There is an API for that! Not on a per-tweet basis and not designed for high frequency updates

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curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD \-d location="San Francisco, California" \

http://twitter.com/account/update_location.xml

8285392raffi

raffiSan Francisco, California...

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http://twitter.com/account/update_location.jsonhttp://twitter.com/account/update_location.json

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Geotagging API

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Geotagging API

Adding it to the tweet Per-tweet basis Out of band / pure meta-data Does not take from the 140 characters

Native Twitter support Simple way to update status with location data Ability to remove geotags from your tweets en masse Using GeoRSS and GeoJSON as the encoding format Across all Twitter APIs (REST, Search, and Streaming)

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Sending an update

status/update

hey-ho...

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Search

search (with geocode)

...

On the way to ace now, so whenever you can make it I'll be there. (@Port Imperial Ferry in Weehawken) http://4sq.com/2rq0vO...

40.7759 -74.0129...

curl "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquare"

geocode parameter takes latitude,longitude,radius where radius hasunits of mi or km

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http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquarehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquarehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquarehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquarehttp://4sq.com/2rq0vOhttp://4sq.com/2rq0vO

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Streaming / Geo-hose (coming soon)

location filteringcurl "http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml?locations=-74.5129,40.2759,-73.5019,41.2759"

locations is a bounding box specified by long 1,lat1,long 2,lat2 and cantrack up to 10 locations that are most 1 degree square (~60 milessquare and enough to cover most metropolitan areas)

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http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml?locations=-74.5129,40.2759,-73.5019,41.2759http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml?locations=-74.5129,40.2759,-73.5019,41.2759http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml?locations=-74.5129,40.2759,-73.5019,41.2759http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.xml?locations=-74.5129,40.2759,-73.5019,41.2759

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Trends API (coming soon)

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Trends API (coming soon)

Global trends

Location specific trends

Currently on front page of Twitter.com and on search.twitter.com Analysis of hot conversations Does not take from the 140 characters

Tweets being localized through a variety of means into trends Locations exposed over the API as WOEIDs Can ask for available trends sorted by distance from your location Querying for a parent of a location will return all locations under it

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Available locations

trends/available

2487956San Francisco

Town

United States

http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/2487956

...

curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.xml"

Can optionally take a lat and long parameter to have trends locationsreturned, sorted, as distance from you.

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Available locations

trends/ woeid .xml

...Golden Globe nominations

#somethingaintright

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curl "http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/2487956.xml"

Look up the trends at the given WOEID

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http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquarehttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%2C25km&source=foursquarehttp://search.twitter.com/search?q=$#http://search.twitter.com/search?q=$#http://search.twitter.com/search?q=$#http://search.twitter.com/search?q=$#http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Golden+Globe+nominationshttp://search.twitter.com/search?q=Golden+Globe+nominations

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