Twitter Broken GeoCode API

Using the GeoCode parameter with the Twitter Search API did not work for me (returned no results). A quick search turned up this post on the Twitter Community pages. It seems that issues were reported with this API over a year ago. Since then, it has not been fixed and now they say it may never be fixed!  I am not going to rant about how shameful it is to have a public API that you know does not work and just leave out there, but …