Tweets may warn about epidemics

By Brooke Jarvis / The Bulletin
March 7, 2013

Twitter users send around 500 million tweets a day, an endless fire hose of information about how people feel, what they’re doing, what they know and where they are.

For epidemiologists and public health officials, it’s a potential gold mine of data — but only if they can figure out how to find....

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