Apr 28, 2014 · We provide a method which can geolocate the overwhelming majority of active Twitter users, independent of their location sharing preferences.

We frame the geotagging problem as an optimization over a social network with a total variation-based objective and provide a scalable and distributed algorithm ...

This work provides a method which can geolocate the overwhelming majority of active Twitter users, independent of their location sharing preferences, ...

Our method infers an unknown user's location by examining their friend's locations. We frame the geotagging problem as an optimization over a social network ...

In this work, we provide a method which can geolocate the overwhelming majority of active Twitter users, independent of their location sharing preferences, ...

This is done through modeling text content of tweets in a semantic space and geo-tagging tweets down to the granularity of latitude and longitude coordinates ...

We frame the geotagging problem as an optimization over a social network with a total variation-based objective and provide a scalable and distributed algorithm ...

TL;DR: This work provides a method which can geolocate the overwhelming majority of active Twitter users, independent of their location sharing preferences, ...

Although many users choose not share their location information, there are methods to estimate the city of a Twitter user with a high degree of accuracy.

Ryan Compton, David Jurgens, David Allen: Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts with Total Variation Minimization. CoRR abs/1404.7152 (2014).