World Pneumonia Day 2011-2016: Twitter contents and retweets.
@article{Adnan2018WorldPD,
title={World Pneumonia Day 2011-2016: Twitter contents and retweets.},
author={Md Mohiuddin Adnan and Jingjing Yin and Ashley M Jackson and Zion Tsz Ho Tse and Hai Liang and King-wa Fu and Nitin Saroha and Benjamin M. Althouse and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung},
journal={International health},
year={2018}
}Background
Twitter is used for World Pneumonia Day (WPD; November 12) communication. We evaluate if themes of #pneumonia tweets were associated with retweet frequency.
Methods
A total of 28 181 original #pneumonia tweets were retrieved (21 November 2016), from which six subcorpora, 1 mo before and 1 mo after WPD 2011-2016, were extracted (n=6721). Underlying topics were identified via latent Dirichlet allocation and were manually coded into themes. The association of themes with retweet count…
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