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There's so much valuable research that can be done with aggregate Tweets that you can't do with just lone accounts. For example I've seen flu outbreaks being pr
by cooper12 9y ago
There's so much valuable research that can be done with aggregate Tweets that you can't do with just lone accounts. For example I've seen flu outbreaks being predicted by hashtags. (http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/technology/tracking-flu-twitter/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/technology/tracking-flu-twit...) The possibilities are really endless, but depend on whether you have the data and whether it's over a large enough timescale for your use. Twitter represents a large portion of our culture and just because you don't personally like it or have a use for it, doesn't mean we should just throw away archives of it.