Swine Flu Wiggles into 2% of Tweets; Searchers, Bloggers Fuel Fire

What’s the first thing you do when you want to know if you’re getting sick? Look up your symptoms on the internet, right? Well then, you can imagine what an impact the infamous Swine Flu has had on search engines, blog posts and tweets. Nielson reported nearly 2% of all Twitter Tweets were regarding the Swine Flu. In one week, its Wikipedia entry was updated 60 times between 10am and 11am. And according to ComScore, its search engine results jumped 1,900% in one week.

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