Pandemics in the age of Twitter: Content analysis of tweets during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Chew, Cynthia ^a,b   Eysenbach, Gunther ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CODING; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EMOTICON; EPIDEMIC; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; HUMOR; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; NOMENCLATURE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; TREND STUDY; TWITTER; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MASS MEDIUM; PANDEMIC; STATISTICS;

SUIDAE;

CLINICAL CODING; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 78649725192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014118     Document Type: Article

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