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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 CDC for the weeks October 4–10, 2009 through May 16–22, 2010. We then used the resulting system to … (min!0.01%, max!1.25%), and a standard deviation of 0.26%. Similar results were obtained when estimating ILI at a … by the numbers. O’Reilly Radar, http://radar. oreilly.com/2010/04/twitter-by-the-numbers.html, 14 April 2010 …