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Could Twitter Tracking Be Used For Research?

Side Effects Public Media
Published June 3, 2014 at 12:39 PM EDT

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Twitter is constantly overloaded with tweets about people getting sick or having the flu. Could researchers use Twitter to track and map flu patterns?
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