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+1  Q: 

what does twitter use for geolocation?

what does twitter use for "add location"

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This page about the geotagging API might give you some insight:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Geotagging-API-Best-Practices?SearchFor=geolocation&sp=1

Leniel Macaferi  2010-08-26 22:37:34

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