Characterizing user demographics in posts related to breast, lung and colon cancer on Japanese twitter (X).

ABSTRACT: Various cancer-related information is spreading on social media. Our study aimed to examine the account types associated with cancer-related tweets (currently known as posts) on Twitter (currently known as X) in Japan, specifically focusing on breast, lung, and colon cancer. Using the Twitter application programming interface, we collected tweets containing keywords of the three cancers type in August-September 2022. The accounts were categorized into seven types: Survivor, Patient's family, Healthcare provider, Public organization, Private organization, News, and Other according to account name and texts. We analyzed the sources of the top 50 most liked and retweeted tweets. Out of 7753 identified tweets, breast cancer represented the majority (62.8%), followed by lung cancer (20.8%) and

SUBMITTER: Kusudo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10948868 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature