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#InSituPathologists: how the #USCAP2015 meeting went viral on Twitter and founded the social media movement for the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

Overview of attention for article published in Modern Pathology, January 2017
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147 X users
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1 Google+ user

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Title
#InSituPathologists: how the #USCAP2015 meeting went viral on Twitter and founded the social media movement for the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Published in
Modern Pathology, January 2017
DOI 10.1038/modpathol.2016.223
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Authors

David Cohen, Timothy Craig Allen, Serdar Balci, Philip T Cagle, Julie Teruya-Feldstein, Samson W Fine, Dibson D Gondim, Jennifer L Hunt, Jack Jacob, Kimberly Jewett, Xiaoyin 'Sara' Jiang, Keith J Kaplan, Ibrahim Kulac, Rashna Meunier, Nicole D Riddle, Patrick S Rush, Jennifer Stall, Lauren N Stuart, David Terrano, Ed Uthman, Matthew J Wasco, Sean R Williamson, Roseann I Wu, Jerad M Gardner

Abstract

Professional medical conferences over the past five years have seen an enormous increase in the use of Twitter in real-time, also known as "live-tweeting". At the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 2015 annual meeting, 24 attendees (the authors) volunteered to participate in a live-tweet group, the #InSituPathologists. This group, along with other attendees, kept the world updated via Twitter about the happenings at the annual meeting. There were 6,524 #USCAP2015 tweets made by 662 individual Twitter users; these generated 5,869,323 unique impressions (potential tweet-views) over a 13-day time span encompassing the dates of the annual meeting. Herein we document the successful implementation of the first official USCAP annual meeting live-tweet group, including the pros/cons of live-tweeting and other experiences of the original #InSituPathologists group members. No prior peer-reviewed publications to our knowledge have described in depth the use of an organized group to "live-tweet" a pathology meeting. We believe our group to be the first of its kind in the field of pathology.Modern Pathology advance online publication, 13 January 2017; doi:10.1038/modpathol.2016.223.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 44 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 8 18%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 18%
Researcher 5 11%
Student > Postgraduate 4 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Other 9 20%
Unknown 7 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 58%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 10 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 September 2020.
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#434,273
of 25,481,734 outputs
Outputs from Modern Pathology
#18
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#9,283
of 424,095 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Modern Pathology
#1
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