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Twitter used to predict flu outbreaks

September 30, 2010

Keeping track of disease trends such as influenza outbreaks has the potential to be far quicker and less costly by monitoring a social network program such as Twitter than following the traditional methods of disease surveillance, according to a computer science expert.

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100928153809.htm
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