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An Academic Healthcare Twitter Account: The Mayo Clinic Experience

Overview of attention for article published in CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, June 2016
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3 news outlets
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71 X users
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2 Facebook pages

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Title
An Academic Healthcare Twitter Account: The Mayo Clinic Experience
Published in
CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, June 2016
DOI 10.1089/cyber.2015.0607
Pubmed ID
Authors

R. Jay Widmer, Nicole B. Engler, Jeffrey B. Geske, Kyle W. Klarich, Farris K. Timimi

Abstract

With more than 300 million monthly active users, Twitter is a powerful social media tool in healthcare, yet the characterization of an academic healthcare Twitter account remains poor to date. We assessed basic gender and geographic data on the account's "followers," as well as categorization of each tweet based on content type. We analyzed the impressions, engagements, retweets, favorites, replies, hashtag clicks, and detail expansions using both Sprinklr and Twitter Analytics. Over a period of 12 months, the account amassed 1,235 followers, with 54 percent being male and 68 percent residing in the United States. Of the 1,635 tweets sent out over the life of the account, we report more than 382,464 impressions, 6,023 engagements, 1,255 retweets, 776 favorites, and 1,654 embedded media clicks in this period. When broken down by tweet category, publication tweets garnered the highest engagement with an estimated mean number of clicks per tweet of 8.2 ± 81.9. Original content had higher total engagement per tweet than retweeted material (2.8 ± 9.2 vs. 0.2 ± 0.9 engagements per tweet; p < 0.0001). Tweets regarding internal, national, and continuing medical education events had similar engagement. Herein is the first publication within the medical literature describing a "case series" of cardiovascular tweets over 12 months. We highlight a rapidly emerging group of interactive followers, a successful means by which to disseminate and engage in breaking topics throughout the cardiovascular field, and the importance of combining physician-led knowledge with intermittent marketing messages.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 74 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 18%
Student > Master 13 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 8%
Other 16 21%
Unknown 15 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 16%
Computer Science 8 11%
Psychology 4 5%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 19 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 17 March 2018.
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