We use publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text. Our act of making a photograph anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data in the real world and also probes the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks.
— Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
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FeatureGeolocationIt’s not difficult to find where tweets on Twitter originate, using geolocation. So this duo tracked down the places where some uncomfortable tweets originated, and photographed the scenes of the tweets after the fact… like clues to murder mysteries.View Images
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Geolocation
It’s not difficult to find where tweets on Twitter originate, using geolocation. So this duo tracked down the places where some uncomfortable tweets originated, and photographed the scenes of the tweets after the fact… like clues to murder mysteries.
Geolocation
It’s not difficult to find where tweets on Twitter originate, using geolocation. So this duo tracked down the places where some uncomfortable tweets originated, and photographed the scenes of the tweets after the fact… like clues to murder mysteries.
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