Alternatively, Twitter users could be saying just as much as they always have, but there could simply be fewer users tweeting each day. Knowing the specific seat they were sitting in, courtesy of their GPS coordinates, would be overkill for most purposes. It appears that over the last seven years Twitter’s user base has been less and less interested in sharing their location in any form. This field was largely missed by most early studies of Twitter’s geography, leading to a significant underrepresentation of geotagged tweets. The stark difference between the two maps reminds us how much of the human world is absent from Twitter’s geotagged tweets.

Source: Forbes March 04, 2019 18:11 UTC