A new study says that a bout of flu may prompt people to post their symptoms on Twitter and also enable health officials track the outbreak in real time. Brigham Young University researchers sampled 24 million tweets from 10 million users. They determined that accurate location information is available for about 15 percent of tweets. That's likely a critical mass for an early-warning system that could monitor terms like "fever," "flu" and "coughing" in a city ...Thursday, 24 January 2013
Twitter can Help Track Disease Outbreaks: Study
A new study says that a bout of flu may prompt people to post their symptoms on Twitter and also enable health officials track the outbreak in real time. Brigham Young University researchers sampled 24 million tweets from 10 million users. They determined that accurate location information is available for about 15 percent of tweets. That's likely a critical mass for an early-warning system that could monitor terms like "fever," "flu" and "coughing" in a city ...
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