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Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using
Social Networking Websites: the Potential of
TwitterEd de Quincey, Patty Kostkova
City University
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http://www.google.org/flutrends/
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http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flu
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Number of tweets containing the word “flu”
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Most popular words found in all tweets
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Collocation of words, one word to the right and the left of the word “flu”
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From almost 500,000 tweets collected
during May to July 2009
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“I have swine flu”2,888
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“I have the flu”1,530
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976594568350257132117
81out of 1,530
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The majority of usernames (76%) were found at one or more of
the other sites
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Over 1 million tweets collected now since
May 2009
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Geolocation
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