Who tweets with their location? Understanding the relationship between demographic characteristics and the use of geoservices and geotagging on twitter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Sloan, Luke ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOGGING; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOGGING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84952673791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142209     Document Type: Article

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