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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• de Quincey, Ed
• Kostkova, Patty

Titel

Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: The Potential of Twitter

Ist Teil von

• Electronic Healthcare, p.21-24

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Epidemic Intelligence is being used to gather information about potential diseases outbreaks from both formal and increasingly informal sources. A potential addition to these informal sources are social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. In this paper we describe a method for extracting messages, called “tweets” from the Twitter website and the results of a pilot study which collected over 135,000 tweets in a week during the current Swine Flu pandemic.