#1

Hello all,

I am doing some research to find out how I could potentially use the Twitter API to retrieve trending locations with geocoordinates (preferably ranked) near geocoordinates that I feed in.

Is this a functionality currently supported by Twitter?

Look forward to hearing back.

-Rohin

#2

I think you’re asking for geographic search, is that right?

It’s limited because not that many Twitter users choose to add geo data to their Tweets; we do not control that, it’s a user preference.

In terms of trends, also a different thing. We can only surface what users post.

Bit of a different question in terms of “trending geocoordinates” - not something that the API provides as a search.

#3

Thanks for getting back Andy. I suppose geographic search would be the better way to phrase it.

I understand that it is limited, but would either of the two be possible:

  1. Given a geocoordinate, find trending information near that geocoordinate via what users post (I believe this is the “trends” API).
  2. Given a geocoordinate, find trending places nearby (ex: neighborhoods/streets nearby with a large number of Tweets etc)?

Look forward to hearing back.