Who Tweets with Their Location? Understanding the Relationship between Demographic Characteristics and the Use of Geoservices and Geotagging on Twitter.
Who Tweets with Their Location? Understanding the Relationship between Demographic Characteristics and the Use of Geoservices and Geotagging on Twitter.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0142209
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Morgan J
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作者：
Sloan L;Morgan J
在这篇文章中，我们利用最近在识别Twitter用户的人口统计特征方面的进展，来探索那些启用和不启用位置服务的用户与那些启用和不启用其推文地理标记的用户之间的人口统计学差异。我们讨论了两个数据集的整理和处理--一个集中于启用地理服务，另一个集中在推特地理标记上。然后，我们调查了选择这两种行为中的任何一种与性别、年龄、阶层、写推文的语言以及用户与Twitter用户界面互动的语言之间的关系。我们发现这两种行为在所有人口统计特征上都有显著差异，尽管关联度因因素而有很大差异。我们的结论是，那些选择加入地理服务的人和那些为他们的推文添加地理标签的人之间存在着显著的人口统计学差异。不受数据的限制，我们建议发布地理信息的推特用户不能代表更广泛的推特人群。
In this paper we take advantage of recent developments in identifying the demographic characteristics of Twitter users to explore the demographic differences between those who do and do not enable location services and those who do and do not geotag their tweets. We discuss the collation and processing of two datasets—one focusing on enabling geoservices and the other on tweet geotagging. We then investigate how opting in to either of these behaviours is associated with gender, age, class, the language in which tweets are written and the language in which users interact with the Twitter user interface. We find statistically significant differences for both behaviours for all demographic characteristics, although the magnitude of association differs substantially by factor. We conclude that there are significant demographic variations between those who opt in to geoservices and those who geotag their tweets. Not withstanding the limitations of the data, we suggest that Twitter users who publish geographical information are not representative of the wider Twitter population.