In the old days 'where it was posted from' used to be displayed on tweets, and Elon intentionally changed it to 'Earth'. Interesting to see a backpedal here, albeit concealed.

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ancorevard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is incorrect.

The old Twitter and its API had "source" field which showed the client app a tweet was sent from.

{ "created_at": "Mon Nov 20 12:34:56 +0000 2023", "id_str": "1726578932412345678", "full_text": "Example tweet", "source": "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/download/iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone</a>", ... }

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mlmonkey an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you had access to the twitter feed (and I did at one point, as our company got the firehose from Twitter), it showed the Lat/Long of where it was posted from IIRC.

I still remember looking at that tweet when the helos went in for OBL, from someone in Abottabad PK, saying something like "helicopters hovering at 2AM... this is a rare occurrence" (or something like that).

	▲	ancorevard 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You can still opt in today to tag your location in a post, that never changed.

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insin 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's still there, they just stopped showing it in the UI. If you poke about in the React state of the Twitter UI, you can see it in the `tweets` entity cache (everything else is still Twitter under the hood too).

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jsheard an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Didn't that show the client the user posted from, not their location? Which was mostly useless anyway after they all but killed the API.