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TweetHood
A Social Media Analytics Tool
10.1 INTRODUCTION
In Chapter 9, we discussed the importance of location mining and the challenges we are faced with in
extracting the accurate locations of social media users. While extracting the location may result
in privacy violations, especially if a user wants to keep his/her location private, it has numerous
benets such as locating the whereabouts of a criminal. We have developed several algorithms that
can extract the location of a user. In this chapter, we will describe our rst algorithm that we have
called TweetHood.
Simply put, TweetHood is an algorithm that determines the location of a ...