Since this article went live two days ago, people have been talking about swine flu on Twitter at close to the same rate. Yesterday the trend dipped down to about 8,000 tweets per hour, but today they were back up. See the updated chart below.
You would think that a Using Computers Examiner would more likely write about Twitter than the swine flu. But in this day of social media and ubiquitous use of technology, health issue meets the computer age. Many people have been tweeting about the swine flu. The numbers have really shot up in the last 15 hours, to almost 10,000 tweets per hour, as this chart shows.











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That is prolific...or so it seems. And this is just the beginning!
btw, re: linked aticle you reply spammed me as well as lots of others on Twitter with, CDC is already using Twitter to tweet: e.g., @cdc_ehealth @CDCemergency @CDCFlu
do your research and, also stop spamming, as you are only going to get reported to Spam @ Twitter.
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