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2015
Foursquare is a location-based social media service that provides users with a personalized local search experience. As a geo-location application, Foursquare uses the global positioning system in mobile devices to generate locations and provide a list of places. “Check-in” is the process of identifying the user’s location. The platform is based on the
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Foursquare is a location-based social media service that provides users with a personalized local search experience. As a geo-location application, Foursquare uses the global positioning system in mobile devices to generate locations and provide a list of places. “Check-in” is the process of identifying the user’s location. The platform is based on the
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Exploring venue popularity in Foursquare
2013 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, 2013In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis on the venue popularity in Foursquare, a leading location-based social network. By collecting 2.4 million venues from 14 geographic regions all over the world, we study the common characteristics of popular venues, and make the following observations. First, venues with more complete profile information are
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When Twitter meets Foursquare: Tweet Location Prediction using Foursquare
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, 2014The continued explosion of Twitter data has opened doors for many applications, such as location-based advertisement and entertainment using smartphones. Unfortunately, only about 0.58 percent of tweets are geo-tagged to date. To tackle the location sparseness problem, this paper presents a methodical approach to increasing the number of geo-tagged ...
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American Journal of Health Education, 2011
More and more, health education specialists are integrating technology into their work. Whereas most are familiar with social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, one relatively new form of social media, location based services (LBS), may be less familiar.
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More and more, health education specialists are integrating technology into their work. Whereas most are familiar with social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, one relatively new form of social media, location based services (LBS), may be less familiar.
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Measurement and analysis of tips in foursquare
2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2016Being a leading online service providing both local search and social networking functions, Foursquare has attracted tens of millions of users all over the world. As a location-centric platform, Foursquare maintains the information of numerous venues, and it has recorded a tremendous amount of users' tips for these venues.
Yang Chen 0001 +3 more
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Popularity dynamics of foursquare micro-reviews
Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Online social networks, 2014Foursquare, the currently most popular location-based social network, allows users not only to share the places (venues) they visit but also post micro-reviews (tips) about their previous experiences at specific venues as well as "like" previously posted tips.
Marisa A. Vasconcelos +4 more
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Polarity Detection of Foursquare Tips
2013In location-based social networks, such as Foursquare, users may post tips with their opinions about visited places. Tips may directly impact the behavior of future visitors, providing valuable feedback to business owners. Sentiment or polarity detection has attracted great attention due to its vast applicability in opinion summarization, ranking or ...
Felipe Moraes +5 more
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Polarity analysis of micro reviews in foursquare
Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the web, 2013On Foursquare, one of the currently most popular location-based social networks, users can not only share which places (venues) they visit but also leave short comments (tips) about their previous experiences at specific venues. Tips may provide a valuable feedback for business owners as well as for potential new customers.
Felipe Moraes +4 more
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Detection of spam tipping behaviour on foursquare
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, 2013In Foursquare, one of the currently most popular online location based social networking sites (LBSNs), users may not only check-in at specific venues but also post comments (or tips), sharing their opinions and previous experiences at the corresponding physical places.
Anupama Aggarwal +2 more
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The Impact of Foursquare Checkins on Users’ Emotions on Twitter
2020Performing observational studies based on social network content has recently gained attraction where the impact of various types of interruptions has been studied on users’ behavior. There has been recent work that have focused on how online social network behavior and activity can impact users’ offline behavior.
Seyed Amin Mirlohi Falavarjani +2 more
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