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Topic covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Using Twitter for Depression Surveillance" The federal government is studying how to use Twitter for surveillance on depressed people. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) began a study financed by the National Institutes of Health last month that will provide “population level depression monitoring” through the social media site. The researchers will create algorithms to determine if people are depressed through their tweets, which they hope will serve as a basis for monitoring mental illness. The will also engage with depressed individuals on Twitter directly. The researchers hope that in developing these algorithms and resources will provide the bedrock for building social media based surveillance systems. If this story or something else has you feeling depressed, well just tweet about it... Find out more and listen to this episode! News Story Link Support Mind Set Central Subscribe or donate