Researchers Find A Better Way To Screen For Flu Tweets

Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have been sick with the virus, while others come from folks who are merely talking about the illness. If you are tracking actual flu cases, such conversations about the flu in general can skew the results...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news