2 days and still no reply here and on twitter... can we just get a simple yes / no answer for now so we don't have to guess around?
it will be nice if there is any workaround as well, like, if we geo tag the tweet, can our location be detected by others inside tweetie 2's new location mapping feature?

it just seems a bit ironic that tweetie 2 comes with this new cool way to see who is near you but then the only way for them to show up is by using other twitter clients other than tweetie....

I found this posted yesterday 10.12.09:
"Of course, all of those are contingent upon Twitter having the APIs for those features ready to go. But the Geolocation API, for example, is already partially deployed and should be a go soon. Brichter notes that Tweetie 2 was built to take advantage of all of these new features, and we saw that the other week when geolocation unexpectedly went live and tagged everyone’s tweets just off the coast of Africa." - TechCrunch http://is.gd/4hoSN

Maybe the intention was to piggy back off Twitter's API for both geocoding the individual tweets as well as your profile location. Right now the tweets nearby feature probably just works off the geoloc off the integrated google maps app?

Yeeeah, I really don't know what I'm talking about. :) Just speculating. It's better than staring at an unanswered forum.

@TedHead Yes like (dare I mention it!) Twitterfon.

so we will have to wait till twitter's new geotag api to come online first?

according to http://news.atebits.com/post/21126834... per-tweet location is not ready yet so you can't really update your location in tweetie 2... yet

So we should continue to use Tweetie 1 if we want to update our location? It's interesting that a feature was removed from a new release of a product, yet it still works in the past version.

who cares about 'per tweet'

echofon FREE version even has the update location deal. it throws up the GPS coordinates for your location... pretty dope and it's really odd that this app doesn't do that.

there is a workaround...
buy Voila! (iphone app) & signup with Yahoo's FireEage location service...
add eagle tweet inside FireEagle and when you only want to change your location, just hit the Voila app and it will update your city/town...

i can't seem to get it to work with actual GPS locations tho...

it would be nice for Tweetie to actually do all the cool stuff it should. I just don't get the nice map searching feature that our tweets aren't even a part of!

since there hasn't been any update or anything, it looks like i'll be switching over to Echofon Pro.. it does everything.

of course i'm talking about updating your Twitter Profile Location and not adding a geotag to a certain tweet.

adding that geotag takes up a lot of characters...

Geotag in Tweetie 2 is useless as far as I can tell. Why would I want to send my location in the text of each tweet? Why doesn't Tweetie 2 have the same functionality that updates your profile location? I paid for both Tweetie 1 and 2, but usually use the old version. Does someone have an answer for this?

Since Twitter has just added the functionality of geotagging, you can be sure that Loren will have this enabled in the next version. I have read (and I can't remember where, or I would link it) that many of the announced features of Twitter are already in the current version of Tweetie 2, just waiting to be enabled by Twitter themselves.

again... we're talking about just updating the Location inside the user profile of twitter and NOT geotagging each tweet or some future services twitter may add.

Tweetie 1 apparently did it... and not on this version.

it's an app issue. all the other apps have this function. again...
try Echofon. the free version has this feature.

it's really sad that we can search tweets nearby, and yet our location can't be changed.

to me, this is a major feature that's totally lacking.

Hi

Just been asking this myself. I often see users with a coordination in their location that gives me an exact map of where they are.
I use Tweetie2 and was wondering how it worked.

Hope there's some explanation or update soon

get tweetie 2.1 update, it adds the new Twitter geo tagging API

William Li,

did you really read what we are asking for?!?

It has nothing todo with geo tagging API... because this API is only used to geo tag a specific tweet...

what we want is a way to update the profile location with the GPS position!!

I see, but I think that was the old way of handling gps position before twitter enables a tweet based positioning.
While the old method of updating your twitter location with geo code seems cool, it only captures where you are now, and not before.

With the new tweet based location, others can see where you were, and where you are now.

Yeah, so i have the Geo tagging of tweets, but as Mario points out, we simply want, in our Profile, for the location to illustrate coordinates like many other twitterers have e.g, iPhone: 077 5545 3233 and when you click on this it opens Google Maps with their exact location.

Seems strange that Tweetie doesnt have this but "lesser" apps do.