Twitter Bot is Helping to Shut Down Dirty Restaurants in Chicago
Think you got food poisoning at that trendy new fusion restaurant last night? Forget about calling it in – tweet it instead, and you might just help shut down a shady business.
According to Business Insider, the Chicago Department of Public Health is using Twitter to collect cases of food poisoning across the city.
They created a Twitter bot that mined Twitter for mentions of food poisoning, and – in combination with an online complaint form – successfully identified 133 restaurants that warranted an inspection within a 10 month period, 21 of which failed.
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