“We wrote in late 2011 about some early research suggesting that
many Twitter users in fact follow other people located within
their same city, evidence, Richard Florida wrote, that the
Internet is reinforcing the value of place instead of
eliminating it. But now that Twitter is a few years older – and
considerably more global – Leetaru and several colleagues have
conducted a massive new analysis of the site that suggests the
opposite: ‘In effect,’ Leetrau says, ‘location plays a much
lesser role now in terms of who we talk to, what we talk about,
and where we get our information.’” Read: How Twitter is
Changing the Geography of Communication The Pop-Up City is
always interested in mobile apps that create new experiences of
the city. So when Wikipedia, the most popular source for all
things information announced its spatial-debut, we paid
attention. Wikipedia recently introduced its GeoData extension.
This streamlined, centralized source for geographic information
means that ‘mapping Wikipedia’ is about to ex