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Disease outbreaks trackable with Twitter |
January 23, 2013
About 15 percent of Tweets can accurately be connected to state-level location data or better. Most of that data is parsed from users' public profiles. Such volume means Twitter could be used as an early-warning system to monitor spread of diseases.
Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/mzin4fZ5k3I/130122162359.htm
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