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Qualitative Twitter analysis of participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content at a major urologic conference.

Overview of attention for article published in Canadian Urological Association Journal, February 2016
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Title
Qualitative Twitter analysis of participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content at a major urologic conference.
Published in
Canadian Urological Association Journal, February 2016
DOI 10.5489/cuaj.3322
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Authors

Hendrik Borgmann, Jan-Henning Woelm, Axel Merseburger, Tim Nestler, Johannes Salem, Maximilian P Brandt, Axel Haferkamp, Stacy Loeb

Abstract

The microblogging social media platform Twitter is increasingly being adopted in the urologic field. We aimed to analyze participants, tweet strategies, and tweet content of the Twitter discussion at a urologic conference. A comprehensive analysis of the Twitter activity at the European Association of Urology Congress 2013 (#eau2013) was performed, including characteristics of user profiles, engagement and popularity measurements, characteristics and timing of tweets, and content analysis. Of 218 Twitter contributors, doctors (45%) were the most frequent, ahead of associations (15%), companies (10%), and journals (3%). However, journals had the highest tweet/participant rate (22 tweets/participant), profile activity (median: 1177, total tweets, 1805 followers, 979 following), and profile popularity (follower/following ratio: 2.1; retweet rank percentile: 96%). Links in a profile were associated with higher engagement (p<0.0001) and popularity (p<0.0001). Of 1572 tweets, 57% were original tweets, 71% contained mentions, 20% contained links, and 25% included pictures. The majority of tweets (88%) were during conference hours, with an average of 24.7 tweets/hour and a peak activity of 71 tweets/hour. Overall, 59% of tweets were informative, led by the topics uro-oncology (21%), urologic research (21%), and urotechnology (12%). Limitations include the analysis of a single conference analysis, assessment of global profile and not domain-specific activity, and the rapid evolution in Twitter-using habits. Results of this single conference qualitative analysis are promising for an enrichment of the scientific discussions at urologic conferences through the use of Twitter.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 70 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 18%
Student > Master 12 17%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 12 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 18%
Computer Science 11 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 15 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 12 July 2016.
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#6,573,525
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from Canadian Urological Association Journal
#169
of 733 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#84,632
of 311,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Canadian Urological Association Journal
#3
of 10 outputs
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