1. twitter.com/eddequincey Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: the Potential of Twitter Ed de Quincey, Patty Kostkova City University

2. twitter.com/eddequincey http://www.google.org/flutrends/

3. twitter.com/eddequincey

6. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flu

7. twitter.com/eddequincey

8. Number of tweets containing the word “flu”

9. twitter.com/eddequincey Most popular words found in all tweets

10. twitter.com/eddequincey Collocation of words, one word to the right and the left of the word “flu”

11. twitter.com/eddequincey From almost 500,000 tweets collected during May to July 2009

12. twitter.com/eddequincey “I have swine flu” 2,888

13. twitter.com/eddequincey “I have the flu” 1,530

14. twitter.com/eddequincey

15. 976 594 568 350 257 132 117 81 out of 1,530

16. twitter.com/eddequincey The majority of usernames (76%) were found at one or more of the other sites

17. twitter.com/eddequincey Over 1 million tweets collected now since May 2009

18. twitter.com/eddequincey Geolocation

19. twitter.com/eddequincey