Tweets from justin bieber's heart: The dynamics of the "location" field in user profiles

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 237-246

  Hecht, Brent ^a   Hong, Lichan ^b   Suh, Bongwon ^b   Chi, Ed H ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geography; Location; Location prediction; Location based services; Privacy; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA PRIVACY; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MACHINERY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; USER PROFILE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHY; LOCATION INFORMATION; LOCATION PREDICTION; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; PRIVACY; SOCIAL NETWORK; TWITTER; USER BEHAVIORS; USER'S PROFILES;

LOCATION;

EID: 79958085453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1978976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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