How do I get the location coordinates of a tweet that has been submitted from desktop computer?

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-13T21:50:39.000Z

I’m trying to get the coordinates of user tweets. The problem is that there is no coordinates for tweets that have been submitted through desktop. When I post a tweet i specify the location but it doesn’t come up in the array.

On the other hand everything works fine when i submit a tweet from my phone.

I don’t know what’s wrong.

romainhuet · 2014-04-13T22:05:04.000Z

Hello,

When Tweeting from your phone with exact GPS coordinates, you can indeed retrieve the location information from coordinates, with the inner coordinates array formatted as geoJSON (longitude first, latitude second), and a type with value Point.

When submitting an approximate location like a city or a neighborhood from your computer, you should look into the place nested object. Your can find here a Polygon as a type, an array of coordinates describing a bounding box for this location as well as its name, type, country, and more.

Check out the object documentation for [node:7286] to find more information.

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-13T22:13:30.000Z

Hi!

Thanks a lot for the information and quick response. The thing is that I don’t have any place objects inside tweets array. There is nothing specifying anything in regards to a place.

romainhuet · 2014-04-13T22:18:12.000Z

Could you please share the URL of the Tweet you are currently looking into and supposed to have location information?

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-13T22:49:00.000Z

twitter.com

pranky bird (prankybird)

testtt3434

9:42 PM - 13 Apr 2014

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-13T23:41:25.000Z

you can go to the username @prankybird, the tweet is testtt3434 or test4

romainhuet · 2014-04-14T12:31:14.000Z

I just had a look at the API response from this Tweet using:


$ twurl "/1.1/statuses/show/455461039371350016.json"

Here is the place attribute in the JSON response, with the details of the Toronto location as I described in my previous message:


{
    ...
    "place": {
        "id": "8f9664a8ccd89e5c",
        "url": "https:\/\/api.twitter.com\/1.1\/geo\/id\/8f9664a8ccd89e5c.json",
        "place_type": "city",
        "name": "Toronto",
        "full_name": "Toronto, Ontario",
        "country_code": "CA",
        "country": "Canada",
        "contained_within": [],
        "bounding_box": {
            "type": "Polygon",
            "coordinates": [
                [
                    [-79.639319, 43.403221],
                    [-78.90582, 43.403221],
                    [-78.90582, 43.855401],
                    [-79.639319, 43.855401]
                ]
            ]
        },
        "attributes": {}
    }
}

Let us know if we can help further.

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-14T20:06:26.000Z

Thanks a lot. I’ll look into this now.

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-16T02:57:52.000Z

Hi!, When I attach a picture to the tweet i lose the place attribute using statuses/show. Is that normal?

5rhinosTO · 2014-04-16T17:06:18.000Z

Hi!, When I attach a picture to the tweet i lose the place attribute using statuses/show. Is that normal?

romainhuet · 2014-04-16T22:40:00.000Z

No, the place should still be here, whether or not the Tweet contains an image. Can you please share an example so we can confirm?

pauldamian8 · 2016-06-04T15:26:08.780Z

Is this also available for direct messages?

andypiper · 2016-06-06T09:29:52.096Z

No, there’s no geo associated with DMs.

TwAxX720 · 2016-07-27T03:40:15.993Z

Hey, I was think could we find the country this tweet was tweeted from? https://twitter.com/MarinaJoyce7/status/758072430145462273

I dont know if you have heard about all the “drama” that could have happend to her, but I was just thinking if we could know from wich country it was tweeted from.
Thanks, Marcus

andypiper · 2016-07-27T15:45:52.130Z

If a user does not explicitly choose to add location data to their Tweets then the location is not stored in any way.

andypiper · 2016-07-28T13:08:09.604Z