Analysis of Geotagging Behavior: Do Geotagged Users Represent the Twitter Population?

Twitter’s APIs are now the main data source for social media researchers. A large number of studies have utilized Twitter diverse research interests. users can share their precise real-time location, and provide this information as longitude latitude. These geotagged help to study human activities movements different applications. Compared mostly small-scale samples in domains, such science, collecting offers samples. There is a fundamental question whether represent non-geotagged users. While some investigated from perspectives, they did not investigate profile contents tweets This empirical addresses limitation by applying text mining, statistical analysis, machine learning techniques on comprising more than 88,000 over 170 million tweets. Our findings show that there significant difference (p-value < 0.001) between based 73% features obtained users’ profiles The also distinguish with around 80% accuracy. illustrates do population.