2009
DOI: 10.1080/01639260903280888
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Exploring the Potential of Twitter as a Research Tool

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“…Besides the traditional sharing of daily routines, users might share information of broad interest, for instance when multiple users report an event like an earthquake or a terrorist attack. There are a wide range of 978-1-4799-1959-8/15/$31.00 @2015 IEEE applications like event detection [1] - [4] , academic tool [5] [7] , news media [1] , [8] or mining political opinion [9] , [10] .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Besides the traditional sharing of daily routines, users might share information of broad interest, for instance when multiple users report an event like an earthquake or a terrorist attack. There are a wide range of 978-1-4799-1959-8/15/$31.00 @2015 IEEE applications like event detection [1] - [4] , academic tool [5] [7] , news media [1] , [8] or mining political opinion [9] , [10] .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The emergence of Symplur (Symplur, 2014) as a register and archive of healthcare hashtags provides a large databank of Twitter conversations around healthcare across all specialities including psychiatry. SoMe as a source of big data can be integrated with other offl ine data sources and monitored to gain an insight into current trends, and to identify opportunities in research (Ovadia, 2009) or potential collaborators. SoMe has changed the fl ow of information and led to a democratization of information (Quinton, 2013).…”
Section: Planningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While SoMe have been identifi ed as having the potential to change the way researchers work, collaborate and communicate (Archibald & Clark, 2014;Das et al, 2014;Grosseck & Holotescu, 2011;Kapp et al, 2013;Ovadia, 2009) both amongst themselves and with participants and the public, the actual use of SoMe in research is still in its infancy (O ' Connor, 2013;van Osch & Coursaris, 2014). In this paper we review some of the emerging evidence and commentaries on the adoption and role of SoMe in research which may inform their further application in medical and healthcare research.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Although mostly considered as an entertainment tool, tweets may contain information of broad interest [5] and are being widely studied as they have a wide range of applications and uses, like event detection [6]- [9], academic tool [10]- [12], news media [6], [13] or mining political opinion [14], [15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%