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Monitoring social media websites like Twitter could help health officials and providers identify in real time severe medical outbreaks, allowing them to more efficiently direct resources and curb the spread of disease, according to a San Diego State University studypublished last month in the Journal of Medical Internet Research,Medical News Today reports.
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This is a cool article to show the real life change that social media is creating. Before it was stated that it would take up to two weeks to detect an outbreak of a disease but now with social media it can be done in a day.
This article really shows how social media is becoming a part of our everyday life and is taking on roles that we probably didn't expect it to.
However with the number of users increasing it is important to have tools that help us monitor the large amount of data that is present.
Its no good having all this information if we cannot harness it's true potential, like the one illustrated in this article for disease break out.