UCLA Study: Twitter can be Used to Monitor HIV Incidence and Drug-Related Behavior

A new UCLA-led study shows that real-time social media like Twitter could be used to track HIV incidence and drug-related behaviors. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal iPreventive Medicine/i, suggests it may be possible to predict sexual risk and drug use behaviors by monitoring tweets, mapping where those messages come from and linking them with data on the geographical distribution of HIV cases. The use of various drugs had been associated ...

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