Tools and methods for capturing Twitter data during natural disasters

First Monday

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bruns, Axel ^a   Liang, Yuxian Eugene ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84863883364     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v17i4.3937     Document Type: Article

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