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Geotagging 100M Twitter accounts, independent of location-sharing preferences [pdf]
- photorized 12y agoImpressive work. Some of the assumptions (people tend to @mention users geographically close to them) don't always hold true, especially in tech, VC, startups, etc.
- sjtrny 12y agoPrevious post and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9155890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9155890
- nl 12y agoKey quote: However, there do exist several users who have amassed friends dispersed around the globe. For these users, our approach should not be used to infer location. So yeah.