Twitter used for tracking people's attitude towards vaccines
Conducted by a scientist, Marcel Salathe, at Penn State University, this is the first research used to measure how social media tools affect disease networks.
The study began in August 2009 and continued until 2010.
Out of all the available social media tools, Mr. Salathe chose Twitter for his experiment because usually the users subscribed in this network, want other people to read what they have to say. Also, they have to be very concise in their opinions because a "tweet" (Twitter messages posted by users) is only 140 characters long.
How did it work?
Basically, the scientist began by collecting all "tweets" related to vaccines in general. After this, he began "following" people's words and feelings towards the H1N1 vaccine against
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Alzheimer's disease or AD, is the one of the most common forms of dementia.
So far, no cure for this disease has been discovered and it gets worse as it progresses, eventually leading to death.
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