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Description: According to research conducted by Brigham Young University, such tweets could be a boon for health officials who are trying to prevent outbreaks. The study analyzed 24 million tweets from 10 million unique users. The study revealed that only 15% of tweets have accurate location information. This information was obtained from user profiles as well as tweets that contained GPS information. This could be a critical mass for an early warning system that could monitor terms such as "fever", "flu" and "coughing." Professor Christophe Giraud Carrier, BYU, stated that one of the things that this paper shows is that the distributions of tweets are roughly the same as the distributions of people. This allows us to have an accurate representation of the nation. "That's another excellent point of validity particularly if you want to study things like the spread of diseases." Professor Giraud-Carrier (@ChristopheGC) and his students in computer science from BYU share their findings in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Researchers have discovered that Twitter's feature for location-tagging, which allows tweets to be tagged with a location, provided less data than they anticipated. Only 2 percent of tweets contained the GPS information, according to the researchers. This is a lower percentage than what Twitter users are reporting in surveys. Giraud-Carrier has stated that there is a disconnect between what you think and what you actually do. Location information can often be retrieved and analyzed from user profiles. Of course, there are some who use the location field to make an amusing joke, i.e. "Somewhere in my imagination" or "a cube world in Minecraft." Researchers found that the information provided by users was correct 88 percent of times. games Besides the jokes, some of the inaccurate data is due to people tweeting while they travel. Rabbitfest Public health officials could be able to collect state-level information , or even better, for 15 percent of tweets. That bodes well for the potential of a Twitter-based health monitoring system to augment the confirmed data from sentinel clinics. "The first step is to search for posts about symptoms tied to actual location indicators and start to plot points on maps," said Scott Burton, a graduate student and lead author of the study. "You could also look to see if people are talking about actual diagnoses or self-reported symptoms like "The doctor has told me I have the flu.'" Two BYU health science professors worked on the project with the computer scientists. Professor Josh West says speed is the main advantage Twitter provides health professionals. "If people in a certain region are expressing similar symptoms on Twitter, health officials may send out a message to providers to gear up for something," West said. "Under conditions like that, it can be extremely useful." Kesler Tanner, a BYU student, is a co-author of the study. He developed the code that was used to collect the data from Twitter. When he graduates in April, he'll be headed off to graduate school to get an Ph.D.
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