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Using Twitter to estimate H1N1 influenza activity
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of users to send and read each other’s ‘tweets’, or short messages limited to 140 characters. The service has more than 190 million registered users and… read more… by the numbers. O’Reilly Radar, http://radar. oreilly.com/2010/04/twitter-by-the-numbers.html, 14 April 2010 … of Influenza Surveillance in the United States, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ fluactivity.htm (accessed 15 August … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 83 … -
The use of Craigslist posts for risk behavior and STI surveillance
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The rise and associated risks of using the internet to find sexual partners among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been noted by many researchers.1,2 The anonymity and relative ease of finding partners on the internet has facilitated casual… read more… Craigslist contains rich behavioral data regarding MSM com- munities and that such information can function as … Fries et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 References 1 McFarlane M, Bull SS, … Office of AIDS, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Section. http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/pages/ … -
Samos: a community-driven open-access prediction market system
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Prediction markets are a type of futures market in which users trade shares that pay off if the event to which they are connected occurs. They are used to aggregate knowledge on a large scale, as the prices of the various contracts can be… read more… J Paton et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 5151 between editors and the community … Health Threats Journal J Paton et al. 2011, 4:s141 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 5252 …