2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2015.10.011
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Home is where your friends are: Utilizing the social graph to locate twitter users in a city

Abstract: Micro-blogging services such as Twitter have gained enormous popularity over the last few years leading to massive volumes of user generated content. A portion of this content is shared via geoaware mobile devices, such as smartphones. Pieces of information shared on such a device can be tagged with the user's location, conditional on the user's settings. These geostamps enable a number of mainstream applications, such as emergency response, disease tracking, news reporting, and advertising. Unfortunately, inf… Show more

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“…Their highest F-measure reported from their study was 37.71%. Again using social graphs, [26], analysed user home locations and managed to infer about 80% users within the home city of Dublin. Recently, [11], used the time of opening of a twitter account together with the tweet language to infer the users home location.…”
Section: User's Home Residencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their highest F-measure reported from their study was 37.71%. Again using social graphs, [26], analysed user home locations and managed to infer about 80% users within the home city of Dublin. Recently, [11], used the time of opening of a twitter account together with the tweet language to infer the users home location.…”
Section: User's Home Residencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…More importantly, social media typically does not disclose IP data, thus two main alternative approaches have been proposed: Friendship Networks (FN) or WD analysis. The FD approach uses a social network analysis, in which the user location is assumed to be close to the locations of her/his friends (Kotzias et al, 2016). This work is focused on WD geolocation, which involves a pure analysis of user texts.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When public life is to be suspended until the end of quarantine, virtual representations become central in urban practice. A quarantine pushes against the strength of local proximity as a critical force in urban life (Iranmanesh & Atun, 2018;Kotzias et al, 2015;Tobler, 1970), forcing interactions to become more virtual. Consequently, the affordance that the urban space provides for interaction shifts toward digital space.…”
Section: Urban Space and Digital Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%