Another advantage of their program is the analysis of information in real time
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:25 am
Another area where Twitter could be useful is in disease warning, particularly seasonal flu. There are a number of challenges to this task. Twitter research shows that users rarely, in about 2% of tweets, use GPS to indicate their location. A solution to this problem could be to take location information from the user's profile.
Searching for keywords like "flu," "cough," and the like isn't always relevant either. Tweets with these may be discussing someone else's illness, not your own.
This discussion of Kobe Bryant's possible illness led to a false surge in "flu" tweets in the US last winter. Johns Hopkins University solved the problem by developing a sophisticated algorithm to analyze the linguistic structure of a tweet.
This allows literally hourly to provide a picture of the spread of the disease in the territory of the state. The system tested in the winter of 2012-2013 showed more successful results in comparison with previous versions of similar programs. The data obtained were comparable with those possessed by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
We all remember the role that social networks played in the unrest direct moving leads email lists in the Middle East. A similar situation was in Europe at the same time, but the residents of the Old World were more concerned about their own safety. During the unrest in England, the number of followers of the Manchester police account increased 5 times. Thus, Twitter can become a high-tech analogue of sirens, reporting the location of an incident and giving advice to the population in real time. It is difficult to imagine a more useful Twitter function.
Twitter personality
Kristin Greenhow of Michigan State University believes that Twitter is a new literary practice. She even came up with a name for this phenomenon — Twitteracy. In her opinion, the social network has taught students to express their thoughts concisely, to be more active, and even to communicate directly with the authors of works or scientific papers. According to Greenhow, Twitter has changed the way people communicate — we have become more involved in global processes and professional reasoning. It is difficult to disagree with this, but is Twitter a direct cause of such changes? I would not say so.
Modern technologies speed up the exchange of information and bring people closer together. I can congratulate the famous biologist Richard Dawkins on his birthday on Twitter or contact the authors of a scientific article I am interested in by email. This does not guarantee a response from them, but I have the opportunity. Let's be honest, I had this opportunity twenty years ago, and even a hundred, but the process itself was technically more difficult and took much more time. Twitter has become another tool for increasing interactivity on the Internet, and the 140 characters allotted to one message are very convenient in our world of fast information.
Searching for keywords like "flu," "cough," and the like isn't always relevant either. Tweets with these may be discussing someone else's illness, not your own.
This discussion of Kobe Bryant's possible illness led to a false surge in "flu" tweets in the US last winter. Johns Hopkins University solved the problem by developing a sophisticated algorithm to analyze the linguistic structure of a tweet.
This allows literally hourly to provide a picture of the spread of the disease in the territory of the state. The system tested in the winter of 2012-2013 showed more successful results in comparison with previous versions of similar programs. The data obtained were comparable with those possessed by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
We all remember the role that social networks played in the unrest direct moving leads email lists in the Middle East. A similar situation was in Europe at the same time, but the residents of the Old World were more concerned about their own safety. During the unrest in England, the number of followers of the Manchester police account increased 5 times. Thus, Twitter can become a high-tech analogue of sirens, reporting the location of an incident and giving advice to the population in real time. It is difficult to imagine a more useful Twitter function.
Twitter personality
Kristin Greenhow of Michigan State University believes that Twitter is a new literary practice. She even came up with a name for this phenomenon — Twitteracy. In her opinion, the social network has taught students to express their thoughts concisely, to be more active, and even to communicate directly with the authors of works or scientific papers. According to Greenhow, Twitter has changed the way people communicate — we have become more involved in global processes and professional reasoning. It is difficult to disagree with this, but is Twitter a direct cause of such changes? I would not say so.
Modern technologies speed up the exchange of information and bring people closer together. I can congratulate the famous biologist Richard Dawkins on his birthday on Twitter or contact the authors of a scientific article I am interested in by email. This does not guarantee a response from them, but I have the opportunity. Let's be honest, I had this opportunity twenty years ago, and even a hundred, but the process itself was technically more difficult and took much more time. Twitter has become another tool for increasing interactivity on the Internet, and the 140 characters allotted to one message are very convenient in our world of fast information.