How Twitter Tracks the Flu

New research suggests Twitter—the social-media site best known for spot news and cat GIFs—can also be used to pinpoint flu outbreaks. A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University found that tweets are an accurate predictor of where cases of the flu are highly concentrated.

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the social-media site best known for spot news and cat GIFs

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Infodemiology: Tracking Flu-Related Searches on the Web for Syndromic Surveillance - There is an excellent correlation between the number of clicks on a keyword-triggered link in Google with epidemiological data from the flu season 2004/2005 in Canada

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