Pandemics in the Age of Twitter: Content Analysis of Tweets during the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak
Cynthia Chew, Gunther Eysenbach in PLoS ONE (2010)
Background Surveys are popular methods to measure public perceptions in emergencies but can be costly and time consuming. We suggest and evaluate a complementary “infoveillance” approach using Twitter during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Our study aimed…