Earthquake shakes Twitter users: Real-time event detection by social sensors

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 851-860

  Sakaki, Takeshi ^a   Okazaki, Makoto ^a   Matsuo, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

earthquake; event detection; location estimation; social sensor; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; EVENT LOCATION; HIGH PROBABILITY; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; KALMAN-FILTERING; LOCATION ESTIMATION; PARTICLE FILTER; PARTICLE FILTERING; REAL TIME INTERACTIONS; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS; TIME EVENT; UBIQUITOUS/PERVASIVE COMPUTING;

ESTIMATION; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SENSORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TARGETS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 77954571408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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