MEASURING CROWDS: Scientists have discovered Twitter's new talent.
PARIS: Data from smartphones and Twitter can accurately show the size of a crowd, helping first responders in an emergency, a study said.
Scientists at England's University of Warwick devised a computer model based on data from Twitter and from phone companies in Milan, northern Italy.
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