If you were to call your boss and let him know that you are not going to clock in to the office in a week's time because of the flu, chances are he will do a double take on the calendar and make sure it is April 1, or figure out that you have taken over the mantle of being the practical joker in the office. Unfortunately for your boss, you are dead serious, as you subscribe to this speculation by a researcher who believes that Twitter could be used as a tool to track disease. Right now, researchers have started to use the site to track how flu spreads through New York, relying on a ‘heatmap' of users who complain of falling sick.
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