twitter.com/eddequincey Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: the Potential of Twitter Ed de Quincey, Patty Kostkova City University
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Number of tweets containing the word “flu”
twitter.com/eddequincey Most popular words found in all tweets
twitter.com/eddequincey Collocation of words, one word to the right and the left of the word “flu”
twitter.com/eddequincey From almost 500,000 tweets collected during May to July 2009
twitter.com/eddequincey “I have swine flu” 2,888
twitter.com/eddequincey “I have the flu” 1,530
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out of 1,530
twitter.com/eddequincey The majority of usernames (76%) were found at one or more of the other sites
twitter.com/eddequincey Over 1 million tweets collected now since May 2009
twitter.com/eddequincey Geolocation
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