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Niall Firth, technology editor (Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features) When disaster strikes, Twitter is always the first to know. Now a new study has demonstrated that using Twitter updates and online news websites to track a disease outbreak is not only quicker than more traditional methods - it's just as reliable, too. In a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers studied the progression of a cholera epidemic in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010.
One Per Cent: Twitter helps track cholera spread in Haiti
Social media has role in delivery of healthcare but patients should proceed with caution, experts say
Nov. 20, 2011 — Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube can be powerful platforms to deliver and receive healthcare information, especially for patients and caregivers who are increasingly going online to connect and share experiences with others with similar medical issues or concerns. However, these sites may lack patient-centered information and can also be sources of misleading information that could potentially do more harm than good, according to the results of two separate social media-related studies unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington, DC.Microsoft's Spindex aggregates Facebook, Twitter, and even Evern
You know that geotagging your posts on Twitter lets people know where you are at the time of posting, but Twitter doesn't offer a way to turn those geotags into anything coherent, like a list or a map. That's where an iPhone app called TrackinU comes in. It converts geotagged tweets into map routes, showing where you've tweeted from.
TrackinU lets you stalk Twitter users via geotagging
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New NodeXL Slides – overview of network analysis for social media March 20th, 2013 · 10 Comments Newly updated slides are now available that provide an overview of the NodeXL project from the Social Media Research Foundation: 2013 NodeXL Social Media Network Analysis from Marc Smith Updates to NodeXL are on the way to expand the variety of data importers, improve web publication, and scale to large data sets. [Read more →] Tags: 2013 · Conference · Foundation · Measuring social media · Metrics · NodeXL · Research · SMRF · SNA · Social Interaction · Social Media · Social Media Research Foundation · Social network · Social Network Analysis · Social Theories and concepts · Talks · Technology · Visualization · Workshop

