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Fig. 2 Difference between day-time and night-tweets showing areas with greater activity during
the day (
white
) and during the night (
dark grey
)
The difference between day-time and night-time tweet numbers is shown in
Fig.
2
. During day-time the Twitter activity in the city centre and nearby wards is
higher than during night-time. Wards at some distance from the city centre show
increased tweet numbers at night time. This pattern could confirm the assumption
that Londoners work in the city centre and along the Thames, but live in the
outskirts or bedroom towns.
Adnan and Longley (
2013
) stated that London
s outskirts have low Twitter
usage. Our study revealed that during the night, the tweeting activity intensifies
in some of the wards away from the city centre. As depicted in Fig.
2
, there are
several
social hubs
(Bawa-Cavia
2011
) that emerge especially in the North-Eastern,
North-Western and Southern parts of London.
The next step in the analysis is the comparison of tweets to population figures.
Taking night-time tweets as the basis, we show the tweets per capita in Fig.
3
.This
figure allows the identification of tweets hotspots, which are areas with high tweet
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