Flutrack platform gathers flu related tweets from the entire world, with
searching tag, words that are influenza synonyms and flu symptoms. The
tags that being tracked are: Influenza, flu, chills, headache, sore
throat, runny nose, sneezing, fever, dry cough. For every tweet
extracted, additional amount of metadata is extracted too. Some of them
are used for sorting the tweets in the database and other, such as
geolocation’s coordinates, for mapping the tweets.