Video Spotlight: Tracking Flu Via Twitter
January 26, 2015
![aerial view of New York with twitter balloon captions](../../assets/images/video-spotlight-twitter.png)
Researchers at the University of Rochester showed last year how Twitter can be used to predict how likely it is for a Twitter user to become sick. They have now used Twitter to model how other factors -- social status, exposure to pollution, interpersonal interaction and others -- influence health.