Twitter’s geolocation in Czech republicTweeting with geolocation in June2012
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 5.000
• Number of Tweets (GeoTweets included): – around 65.000
• Watched time period: – Several weeks in June 2012
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Map of Czech republic
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Western part of Czech republic
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Eastern part of Czech republic
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Southern part of Czech republic
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Ratio Tweets to GeoTweets
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= 3,37 %
• Almost every 29th Tweet is GeoTweet.• Huge majority of GeoTweets come from
mobile devices.
Number of all GeoTweetsNumber of all Tweets
Ratio Tweets to unique GeoTweets
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= 2,79 %
• Twitterers usually tweet from the same place (home, work, office…).
Number of all unique GeoTweetsNumber of all Tweets
Ratio Twitterers to GeoTwitterers
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= 9,86 %
• Not all Tweets tweeted by GeoTwitterer are GeoTweets.
• Every tenth Twitterer is GeoTwitterer.
Number of all GeoTwitterersNumber of all Twitterers
Source of GeoTweets
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Example of GeoTweeting
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GeoTweet Bug
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Twitter does not recognize Czech republic from geolocation.
Our neighbors are shown instead of Czech republic.
Purposes of GeoTweeting
•Most of the cases are without purpose• Location from Foursquare
application• Location of picture taking via
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Most active GeoTwitterers
1. Tomáš Kápl - @scottycze
2. David Sixta - @djblackfool
3. Rob Chestnut - @rhchestnut
4. Miloš Čermák - @cermak
5. Lada Brůnová - @ladab
6. Zdener (Zdeněk Kurc) - @zdener
7. Lukáš Bejček - @LucasBejcek
8. Michal Sabó - @s_a_b_a_c
9. Charles - @kgarlik10. Pavel Dolezal -
@pabu01
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Andrej Probst@andrejprobsthttp://linkedin.com/andrejprobst
Data source:http://twitter.mracik.sk/
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