Thoughts

Some interesting media issues posted by Jim Underwood, former Adjunct Instructor, Communication Department, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL. Many posts are by former students in his Introduction to Mass Communication class.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Twitter Curing Diseases?

The article talks about how there are over 500 million tweets a day about how people are feeling, and due to the tweets, epidemiologists are figuring out where the sicknesses are coming from, how fast the sickness is spreading, and what the epidemiologist can do about it. 
What do you think about this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/twitter-becomes-a-tool-for-tracking-flu-epidemics-and-other-public-health-issues/2013/03/04/9d4315c2-6eef-11e2-aa58-243de81040ba_story.html

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