Twitter’s geolocation in Slovak republicTweeting with geolocation in June 2012

Andrej Probst

Dictionary

• GeoTweet– Tweet with geolocation

• Unique GeoTweet– Tweet with unique geolocation. There are no two

GeoTweets with the same geolocation

• GeoTwitterer– Twitterer who has tweeted at least one GeoTweet

during watched time period

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Source of information

• Data source: – http://twitter.mracik.sk

• Number of Twitterers (GeoTwitterers included): – around 1.600

• Number of Tweets (GeoTweets included): – around 22.300

• Watched time period: – Several weeks in June 2012

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Map of Slovak republic

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Western part of Slovak republic

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Eastern part of Slovak republic

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Ratio Tweets to GeoTweets

Number of all GeoTweetsNumber of all Tweets

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= 3,27 %

• Almost every 30th Tweet is GeoTweet.• Huge majority of GeoTweets come from

mobile devices.

Ratio Tweets to unique GeoTweets

Number of all unique GeoTweetsNumber of all Tweets

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= 2,63 %

• Twitterers usually tweet from the same place (home, work, office…).

Ratio Twitterers to GeoTwitterers

Number of all GeoTwitterersNumber of all Twitterers

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= 9,03 %

• Not all Tweets tweeted by GeoTwitterer are GeoTweets.

• Almost every 12th Twitterer is GeoTwitterer (wrote at least one GeoTweet).

Source of GeoTweets

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Example of GeoTweeting

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GeoTweet Bug

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Twitter does not recognize Slovak republic from geolocation.

Our neighbors are shown instead of Slovakia.

Purposes of GeoTweeting

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•Most of the cases are without purpose• Location from Foursquare

application• Location of picture taking via

Instagram application

Most active GeoTwitterers

1. Lukas Okal - @lukasokal

2. Marek Sladky - @sladkym

3. martin mrva - @tumurcatko

4. Filip Slúka - @filipsluka

5. Jakub Brindza - @jakubbrindza

6. Odkazprestarostu.sk - @vase_okolie

7. Tomas Blaskovic - @tomas_blaskovic

8. Mato Husar - @batuska

9. Cestujeme po svete - @cestujeme

10. Marcel Lacko - @marcel_lacko

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Andrej Probst@andrejprobsthttp://linkedin.com/andrejprobst

Data source:http://twitter.mracik.sk/

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