Malaysian Lifelogging over Twitter

Author

Saloot, Mohammad Arshi ; Idris, Norisma ; Mahmud, Rohana

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

128

Abstract

Twitter can be used to exchange a variety of data such as sensitive data, political news, commercial messages, real-time events, and life logging. Life logging is the process of recording aspects of one´s everyday life in digital form. This paper presents an empirical study to investigate whether Twitter is used for life logging by Malaysian users and to what extent. In this study, ten million Malaysian Twitter messages were gathered via human agents and Twitter´s API. These messages were analyzed to assess the extent of their life logging activity according to two main aspects: 1) geolocation of users, and 2) subject of messages. Our results indicate that Malaysians have a high tendency to capture and share their day to day life via Twitter.

Keywords

data acquisition; social networking (online); API; Malaysian lifelogging; Malaysian users; Twitter; commercial messages; data exchange; data gathering; digital form; everyday life recording; human agents; messages subject; political news; real-time events; sensitive data; user geolocation; Blogs; Computers; Internet; Mobile communication; Twitter; Uniform resource locators; data analyzing; data gathering; lifelogging; twitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (AIMS), 2013 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kota Kinabalu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3250-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIMS.2013.27

Filename

6959905