1. Twitter’s geolocation in Slovak republic
Tweeting with geolocation in June 2012
Andrej Probst

2. 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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3. 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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4. Map of Slovak republic
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5. Western part of Slovak republic
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6. Eastern part of Slovak republic
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7. Ratio Tweets to GeoTweets
Number of all GeoTweets
= 3,27 %
Number of all Tweets
• Almost every 30th Tweet is GeoTweet.
• Huge majority of GeoTweets come from
mobile devices.
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8. Ratio Tweets to unique GeoTweets
Number of all unique GeoTweets
Number of all Tweets
= 2,63 %
• Twitterers usually tweet from the same place
(home, work, office…).
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9. Ratio Twitterers to GeoTwitterers
Number of all GeoTwitterers
= 9,03 %
Number of all Twitterers
• Not all Tweets tweeted by GeoTwitterer are
GeoTweets.
• Almost every 12th Twitterer is GeoTwitterer
(wrote at least one GeoTweet).
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10. Source of GeoTweets
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11. Example of GeoTweeting
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12. GeoTweet Bug
Twitter does not
recognize Slovak
republic from
geolocation.
Our neighbors are
shown instead of
Slovakia.
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13. Purposes of GeoTweeting
• Most of the cases are without
purpose
• Location from Foursquare
application
• Location of picture taking via
Instagram application
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14. Most active GeoTwitterers
• Lukas Okal - • Odkazprestarostu.sk -
@lukasokal @vase_okolie
• Marek Sladky - • Tomas Blaskovic -
@sladkym @tomas_blaskovic
• martin mrva - • Mato Husar -
@tumurcatko @batuska
• Filip Slúka - • Cestujeme po svete -
@filipsluka @cestujeme
• Jakub Brindza - • Marcel Lacko -
@jakubbrindza @marcel_lacko
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15. Are you interested in
tweeting in Slovak and
Czech republic?
Andrej Probst
@andrejprobst
http://linkedin.com/andrejprobst
Data source:
http://twitter.mracik.sk/
Presentations:
http://www.slideshare.net/andrej_probst