The use of Twitter to track levels of disease activity and public concern in the U.S. during the influenza A H1N1 pandemic.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of users to send and read each other's "tweets," or short, 140-character messages. The service has more than 190 million registered users and processes about 55 million tweets per day. Useful info...

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Main Authors: Alessio Signorini, Alberto Maria Segre, Philip M Polgreen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3087759?pdf=render