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Sharing is caring: an analysis of #FOAMed Twitter posts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mohammed Ahmed RashidSharon Wing Lam YipDeborah GillZakia Arfeen
Published in: Postgraduate medical journal (2020)
#FOAMed tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic included a broad range of resources, advice and support. Despite the geographical, language and disciplinary variation of contributing users and the lack of organisational structure uniting them, this social media medical community has been able to construct, share and use emerging technical knowledge through a time of extraordinary challenge and uncertainty for the global medical community.
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