last time I worried about swineflu: 1975
first Tweet on the recent outbreak: 4/22/2009
(don’t bother clicking on the link at the target page — goes to a real-time news feed
first significant “alerting”: 4/23/2009
Twitter maelstrom: as of 4/27, “Swine flu” items were showing up on twitter at a rate of 49 per 20 seconds, or ~ 150/min
this morning: told my 17-y-o daughter I have a snuffly nose. ”Do you have swine flu?”
No, but there is a case in adjacent Livingston County, Michigan.
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