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Online Discussion on #KidneyStones: A Longitudinal Assessment of Activity, Users and Content

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, August 2016
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Title
Online Discussion on #KidneyStones: A Longitudinal Assessment of Activity, Users and Content
Published in
PLOS ONE, August 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0160863
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Authors

Johannes Salem, Hendrik Borgmann, Matthew Bultitude, Hans-Martin Fritsche, Axel Haferkamp, Axel Heidenreich, Arkadiusz Miernik, Andreas Neisius, Thomas Knoll, Christian Thomas, Igor Tsaur

Abstract

Twitter is a popular microblogging platform for the rapid dissemination of information and reciprocal exchange in the urological field. We aimed to assess the activity, users and content of the online discussion, #KidneyStones, on Twitter. We investigated the Symplur Signals analytics tool for Twitter data distributed via the #KidneyStones hashtag over a one year period. Activity analysis reflected overall activity and tweet enhancements. We assessed users' geolocations and performed an influencer analysis. Content analysis included the most frequently used words, tweet sentiment and shares for top tweets. 3,426 users generated over 10,333 tweets, which were frequently accompanied by links (49%), mentions (30%) and photos (13%). Users came from 106 countries across the globe and were most frequently from North America (63%) and Europe (16%). Individual and organisational healthcare professionals made up 56% of the influencers of the Twitter discussion on #KidneyStones. Besides the words 'kidney' (used 4,045 times) and 'stones' (3,335), 'pain' (1,233), 'urine' (1,158), and 'risk' (1,023) were the most frequently used words. 56% of tweets had a positive sentiment. The median (range) number of shares was 85 (62-587) for the top 10 links, 45.5 (17-94) for the top 10 photos, and 44 (22-95) for the top 10 retweets. The rapidly growing Twitter discussion on #KidneyStones engaged multiple stakeholders in the healthcare sector on a global scale and reached both professionals and laypeople. When used effectively and responsibly, the Twitter platform could improve prevention and medical care of kidney stone patients.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 10 17%
Student > Master 7 12%
Researcher 5 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Other 13 22%
Unknown 17 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 12%
Arts and Humanities 4 7%
Social Sciences 4 7%
Computer Science 3 5%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 22 37%
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