Tools scours Twitter for signs of bullying

Okay, just in time for school to begin again, computer scientists at the University of Wisconsin have developed a program that can scan through Twitter for signs of cyberbullying.  According to the blog post in Education Week/Digital Education - from a story on Good Education magazine's website, the program recently discovered 15,000 bullying-related Tweets in one day out of roughly 250 million Tweets issued in a day!  The researchers hope to develop the program further so it can also recognize danger signs pointing to children who are in need of an adult intervention.  In addition, according to a release from the university, they hope to create ways to show bullied children that others like them also suffer cyberbullying.  Check out the full blog posting here http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2012/08/edtech_notebook_twitter_bullyi.html or the original story at http://www.good.is/post/a-new-program-scours-twitter-for-school-bullying/