Health Care Social Media and Communications South Africa, June 26, 2018
Hashtag data is also important to monitor during an outbreak which is demonstrated in the image below that shows the public conversations on Twitter using the #Listeriosis hashtag. One particular spike recorded on the Symplur Signals hcsm analytics platform showed 89 900 tweets between 03 March 2018 – 08 March 2018, which was the period when the South African National Department of Health announced the source of the biggest Listeriosis outbreak globally which they suspected was a locally-produced meat product called polony.
— Health Care Social Media and Communications South Africa
