How do you set the twitter user location in JTwitter?

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How do you set the twitter user location in JTwitter?

I'm building some basic Twitter functionality into my app, and am using the JTwitter JAR to read and set status.

It looks like there is a User class that can be used to set the location, but I just can't figure out how to set it with my GPS coordinates once I've got my Twitter object.

Has anyone been able to set the user.location property using JTwitter?

Thanks, -Gregg

It would appear that JTwitter doesn't support this.

The Twitter API method /statuses/update takes lat and long arguments (or a single place_id argument) to specify the location.

Looking at the source (line ~2500), the updateStatus method of JTwitter only passes the status, source and in_reply_to_status_id arguments. You'll need to modify the JTwitter source to pass the lat/long arguments if you want to geotag your tweets.

Chris Smith 2010-05-17 01:49:14

Ah, ok. Thanks for the quick response!-Gregg

Gregg Reno 2010-05-17 03:55:30

Just updated the updateStatus function to add the lat and long arguments, and it works great. Thanks again.

Gregg Reno 2010-05-17 14:02:19

+1 A:

Sorry for the omission!

I've just added support for setting your location to the latest version (v1.6.2). See Twitter.setMyLocation().

NB - location based searches are handled separately via setSearchLocation(), as they need long, lat and radius.

Daniel Winterstein 2010-05-24 10:38:23

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