Malaysian Lifelogging over Twitter

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.