Understanding the removal of precise geotagging in tweets

Yingjie Hu () and Ruo-Qian Wang
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Yingjie Hu: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Ruo-Qian Wang: The State University of New Jersey

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020, vol. 4, issue 12, 1219-1221

Abstract: Twitter announced on 18 June 2019 that it would remove the precise geotagging feature in tweets. In addition to protecting the location privacy of users, this change also affects human behaviour studies based on geotagged tweets. We discuss the potential impact of Twitter’s decision and how researchers can respond to this change.

Date: 2020
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