Hookah-Related Posts to Twitter From 2017 to 2018: Thematic Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hookah (or tobacco waterpipe) use has recently become prevalent in the United States. The contexts and experiences associated with hookah use are unclear, yet such information is abundant via publicly available hookah users' social media postings.

Objective

In this study, we utilized Twitter data to characterize Twitter users' recent experiences with hookah.

Methods

Twitter posts containing the term "hookah" were obtained from April 1, 2017 to 29 March, 2018. Text classifiers were used to identify clusters of topics that tended to co-occur in posts (n=176,706).

Results

The most prevalent topic cluster was Person Tagging (use of @username to tag another Twitter account in a post) at 21.58% (38,137/176,706) followed by Promotional or Social Events (eg,

SUBMITTER: Allem JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6277830 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature