Twitter api (Twitter4j). How to get US tweets?

Question

I'm trying to get random stream US tweets by using twitter4j, but it seems there is no way I can do that.
I decided to use streaming api, because it looks like it suits for my purposes, but the thing is. I can get random tweets, using method sample(). But it returns random tweets without any ability to filter US tweets.
So I used filter method without any success, because I have to set track words and it's not actually what I need.
I tried to use not stream api and it seems that it's possible to reach my purpose, but it's bloody hell.
Does anyone know how to subscribe for US tweets in English by using stream twitter api?

Answer 1

Why don't you use filter mechanism in the streamin api? There is an optional parameter that you can specifically set the coordinated wherever you want, then you will be getting only the tweets determined by these coordinates.

You can have a look at following links for further info:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/filter

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis/parameters#locations

However, there is no way to filter tweets in terms of language yet in Streaming API, but search API has that functionality.

Answer 2

With Search API, if you can live with omitting Alaska/Hawaii and including Toronto you could go with something like (geocode:"41.2,-113.6,1000km" OR geocode:"38.1,-88.3,1600km"). That gives this sort of coverage:

Or just create longer boolean that does what you want..