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Twitter Map Tracks Swine Flu Tweets in Real Time - Page 2 - Health News and Views - Health.com
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30-Day Weight Loss Challenge. 30-Day Total Body Challenge. Build Your 5-Day Diabetes Meal Plan. Your 5-Day Healthy Lunch Planner. 21-Day Challenge: Power Up Your Veggies. Cold, Flu, and Sinus. Twitter Map Tracks Swine Flu Tweets in Real Time. May 1, 2009. In general, Google Flu sees a rise in flu-related searches about two weeks before the CDC sees a rise in seasonal flu cases, because the federal agency generally relies on reports that must filter from patients to doctors and then to the CDC. 8220;If we...
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Ramblings From the Technologically Impaired: April 2009
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Ramblings From the Technologically Impaired. Sunday, April 26, 2009. The explosion in popularity for Twitter has allowed everyone to stay in tune with each other through the bountiful amounts of "tweets" but it is apparently being used for another type of tracking: people's illnesses. Webware's Josh Lowensohn reported. Granted, the technology is new and in the development stages but it may have the possibility to be utilized by the health and international aid sectors. It would have to be adapted fro...