Twitter Usage Among Physicians From 2016 to 2020: Algorithm Development and Longitudinal Analysis Study.

Keisuke Nakagawa Nuen Tsang Yang Machelle D Wilson Peter M Yellowlees

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2022)

Twitter has become an increasingly popular social media platform for US physicians over the past 5 years, and their use of Twitter has evolved to cover a broad range of topics, including science, politics, social activism, and COVID-19. We have developed an accurate, repeatable methodology for identifying US physicians on Twitter and have characterized their activity.

Keyphrases

social media
primary care
health information
coronavirus disease
sars cov
healthcare
mental health
deep learning
high throughput
cross sectional
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
mass spectrometry