Comments on: Using twitter to spot flu trends http://www.westglobal.com/blog/2009/03/05/using-twitter-to-spot-flu-trends/ From the creators of Vantify Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:09:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Des Carbery http://www.westglobal.com/blog/2009/03/05/using-twitter-to-spot-flu-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Des Carbery Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:55:58 +0000 http://www.westglobal.com/blog/?p=53#comment-108 Hi Ilkka FluTweet looks very similar to what Paul is doing at http://sickcity.org The only difference I can see is they're adding Facebook data too. Maybe you should work together. Hi Ilkka
FluTweet looks very similar to what Paul is doing at http://sickcity.org

The only difference I can see is they’re adding Facebook data too.

Maybe you should work together.

]]> By: Ilkka http://www.westglobal.com/blog/2009/03/05/using-twitter-to-spot-flu-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Ilkka Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:59:23 +0000 http://www.westglobal.com/blog/?p=53#comment-107 Hi Des Your friend is definitely on the right track, Twitter's real time data really should be able to indicate emerging flu epidemics. Check out FluTweet at www.flutweet.com, it's doing that already. All in all, it's very interesting what you can do with Twitter, there is also a stock-following application for example. Hi Des

Your friend is definitely on the right track, Twitter’s real time data really should be able to indicate emerging flu epidemics. Check out FluTweet at http://www.flutweet.com, it’s doing that already.

All in all, it’s very interesting what you can do with Twitter, there is also a stock-following application for example.

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