Twitter bootstrap tooltip directions not working?

Question

I noticed that my twitter bootstrap tooltips were not respecting data-position.

So, I headed over to the Twitter Bootstrap tooltips demo, specifically looki

Answer 1

Jsfiddle Jsfiddle with tooltip working

Its not a bug , but we need to initialize them .
Important Bootstrap website states "For performance reasons, the tooltip and popover data-apis are opt in, meaning you must initialize them yourself." Bootstrap website Tooltip section

        

          
Tooltip on top
          
Tooltip on right
          
Tooltip on bottom
          
Tooltip on left
        
      

The javascript to use , you will have to initialize

$('a').tooltip();