Health Tweeder Hopes to Distill Medical Twittersphere

Twitter has in many ways become a major medium for discussion on just about any topic. Health and medicine certainly has its presence on Twitter and the folks at Pixels and Pills, a collaboration between two pharma marketing firms, have developed a visualization tool to give a perspective of what issues most concern people. The Health Tweeder scans for keywords from a large group of twitter posts and organizes them by “petri dishes”. These are then clickable and lead to specific tweets within the given topic. Once more thoroughly developed, the tool may provide public health officials a better understanding of what the public is thinking and doing, such as during healthcare emergencies.

Link: Health Tweeder…
(hat tip: ScienceRoll)