Social Media

Instagram is developing a “Friend Map” feature, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The opt-in feature, which is similar to Snapchat’s Snap Map, would allow users to see their friends’ locations in real time. The company says the feature is an internal prototype and is not being tested externally. The feature was first ...

We have launched a new online map for women and girls to use to highlight areas they feel safe or unsafe in Essex. When accessing the map, women and girls can ‘drop a pin’ on a particular area that they have felt unsafe. They can then state why. It can be used on a desktop ...

A new deep learning system can detect natural disasters using images posted on social media. The international group of researchers applied computer vision tools that, once trained using 1.7 million photographs, proved capable of analyzing, filtering, and detecting real disasters, writes the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in a press release. Previous research focused on ...

Foursquare, the leading independent location technology company, exclusively powers data visualization for the new Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities announced last week at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2022. Foursquare Studio can visualize geospatial data at a massive scale with ease, enabling data scientists to explore geospatial data interactively and seamlessly on a map as they ...

The map function on Instagram got a lot more useful today, in a Google-inspired kind of way. The new Instagram map supports searches and filters, allowing users to look up restaurants, attractions and other hot spots directly in the app, rather than simply viewing where a photo was posted. The updated map also features posts, ...

This year, a research institute hopes social media can play a more practical role – asking residents to tweet details about floods in their neighbourhoods and using the data to issue geographically specific flood alerts in real-time. Around the world in countries including Australia and Indonesia, climate researchers are increasingly using data gathered via social ...