This makes a lot of sense. Tweeting is easy, and mining it is quite practical. Using it to track epidemic progress turns out to be as accurate as the official reports, but much, much quicker. #ddtb
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One Per Cent: Twitter helps track cholera spread in Haiti
Niall Firth, technology editor. rexfeatures_1253147b.jpg (Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features). When disaster strikes, Twitter is always the first to know. Now a new study has demonstrated that using Twitt…
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