Twitter is a social networking service that has emerged as a valuable tool for healthcare professionals (HCPs). It is the only platform that allows one to connect, engage, learn, and educate oneself and others in real time on a global scale. HCPs are using social media tools to communicate, educate, and engage with their peers worldwide. Twitter allows HCPs to deliver easily accessible "real-ti...

BACKGROUND Influenza (flu) surveillance using Twitter data can potentially save lives and increase efficiency by providing governments and healthcare organizations with greater situational awareness. However, research is needed to determine the impact of Twitter users' misdiagnoses on surveillance estimates. OBJECTIVE This study establishes the importance of Twitter users' misdiagnoses by sho...

Due to the fast development of social media on the Web, Twitter has become one of the major platforms for people to express themselves. Because of the wide adoption of Twitter, events like breaking news and release of popular videos can easily catch people’s attention and spread rapidly on Twitter, and the number of relevant tweets approximately reflects the impact of an event. Event identifica...

This paper discusses „citations‟ and „references‟ within the microblogging service Twitter with the aim to provide measures for scientific communication on this platform. It provides definitions for different types of citations on Twitter and discusses general difficulties in accessing scientific tweets. Furthermore, two different datasets that represent scientific usage of Twitter have been an...

This paper investigates Twitter usage in scientific contexts, particularly the use of Twitter during scientific conferences. It proposes a methodology for capturing and analyzing citations/references in Twitter. First results are presented based on the analysis of tweets gathered for two conference hashtags.

Twitter is the leading micro-blogging and social network service and is attracting an enormous amount of attention in recent years. Users on Twitter generate an abundance of information every day, establishing Twitter as the focal point for analyzing and visualizing

(2013) What people study when they study Twitter: classifying Twitter related academic papers. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from the work. All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this mat...

We investigate the relationship between social media, Twitter in particular, and stock market. We provide an in-depth analysis of the Twitter volume and sentiment about the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index, over a period of three years. We focus on Earnings Announcements and show that there is a considerable difference with respect to when the announcements are made: befor...

Today, more and more physical communities of practice, a concept that describes a group of people that share a passion and interact regularly at events to exchange knowledge, utilize social media, such as Twitter. Brotaru, for instance, is such a physical community of practice for media professionals in Brussels. It is a monthly meet-up of videogame developers in various locations in Brussels. ...

Twitter is a crucial platform to get access to breaking news and timely information. However, due to questionable provenance, uncontrollable broadcasting, and unstructured languages in tweets, Twitter is hardly a trustworthy source of breaking news. In this paper, we propose a novel topic-focused trust model to assess trustworthiness of users and tweets in Twitter. Unlike traditional graph-base...