Sometimes picking a good restaurant is all about deciding where not to eat.
That's the premise of an alert system developed by researchers at the University of Rochester that tracks Twitter postings to flag restaurants where patrons are getting sick.
The idea is to give diners a more timely way to identify problem kitchens — and avoid getting food poisoning — than relying on annual health department inspection reports.
"You don't really know what's happening between inspections," said Adam Sadilek, who led the development of the system while a graduate student at the university and who is now a researcher at Google.
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