National and local influenza surveillance through Twitter: an analysis of the 2012-2013 influenza epidemic.

Social media have been proposed as a data source for influenza surveillance because they have the potential to offer real-time access to millions of short, geographically localized messages containing information regarding personal well-being. However, accuracy of social media surveillance systems d...

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Main Authors: David A Broniatowski, Michael J Paul, Mark Dredze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3857320?pdf=render