Country Localisation of Twitter Users

Localising Twitter users when trying to analyse local trends, events, or mood is a useful capability. However, there is still no method able to reach high precision and recall. Research projects attempting to localise Twitter users to a precise radius (e.g., 10km) managed to localise at most 60% of users correctly. In this paper, we propose a way to classify them by the country they are located in, instead of finding a precise localisation. We...