We saw this with Michael Jackson’s death and we will see it again in the future

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We saw this with Michael Jackson’s death and we will see it again in the future. Social media has the potential to become the greatest early detection system that the world has ever seen. It is faster, nimbler and has more access to user data than any traditional search engine. Not only does Facebook have the data necessary to see who is suffering from an illness, it has the data necessary to predict who these ill people will most likely come in contact with.


Twitter has the data to make similar predictions (although l israel mobile phone numbers database ess accurately because people don’t physically spend time with Twitter friends like they do with Facebook friends) but enjoys the added benefit of being accessed and updated from any place with mobile phone or WIFI service. (90% of Twitter requests are made to it's API, whereas only 12% of Facebook users access Facebook through it's mobile apps). These two social media platforms by themselves have the ability to enable ordinary people to report their symptoms in real-time.


Specialists like epidemiologists and statisticians could then identify threats (early detection) and use these same communication channels to direct aid workers (rapid response) on how best to isolate viruses before they become pandemics. If the features of other social media platforms and modern search engines were added to this theoretical system, specialists could for the first time ever educate the global community in real time. (Think about how many people read stories on Digg or about the much larger amount of people who read Google Adsense ads every day.