Pandemics in the age of Twitter: content analysis of Tweets during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak.
Surveys are popular methods to measure public perceptions in emergencies but can be costly and time consuming. We suggest and evaluate a complementary "infoveillance" approach using Twitter during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Our study aimed to: 1) monitor the use of the terms "H1N1"...
Main Authors: | Cynthia Chew, Gunther Eysenbach |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-11-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2993925?pdf=render |
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