At least this is what Enrique and Vanessa Frías-Martínez believe, computer science researchers at Telefonica Research and the University of Maryland (USA) respectively, who have suggested using geolocalized tweets for urban planning and land use.
(2) Enrique Frías-Martínez explained that geolocalized tweets can be a very useful source of information for planning since it is an activity carried out by a large number of people who provide information on where they are at a specific time and what they are doing.
The researcher points out that thanks to the increased use of smartphones, social networks like Twitter and Facebook have made it possible to access and produce information ubiquitously.
(3) These networks generate tagswith the event's geolocation. The new technique "automatically determines land uses in urban areas by grouping together geographical regions with similar patterns of Twitter activity," says the researcher.
Using aggregate activity of tweets, the Frías-Martínez siblings have studied land use in Manhattan, Madrid and London. In the first two cases they identified four uses: residential, business, daytime leisure (mainly parks and tourist areas) and nightlife areas.
The study has determined that, in Madrid, night-time tweet activity is concentrated on weekends and in Manhattan, on weekdays.
On the other hand, London is characterized by its tweeting activity in daytime leisure areas.
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Questions
1. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
A. Many people like to use geolocation tags on Twitter
B. Information from social networks can be accessed universally