Twitter as a Potential Data Source for Cardiovascular Disease Research.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

As society is increasingly becoming more networked, researchers are beginning to explore how social media can be used to study person-to-person communication about health and health care use. Twitter is an online messaging platform used by more than 300 million people who have generated several billion Tweets, yet little work has focused on the potential applications of these data for studying public attitudes and behaviors associated with cardiovascular health.

Objective

To describe the volume and content of Tweets associated with cardiovascular disease as well as the characteristics of Twitter users.

Design, setting, and participants

We used Twitter to access a random sample of approximately 10 billion English-language Tweets originating from US counties

SUBMITTER: Sinnenberg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5177459 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature