Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States.
Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
J Paediatr Child Health. 2021 Aug;57(8):1215-1221. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15428. Epub 2021 May 19.
Bedwetting is a common paediatric condition. #Bedwetting has been established as the official hashtag to structure Twitter discussions about the condition. We analysed online Twitter discussions for #Bedwetting.
Symplur, a Twitter analytics service was employed to aggregate Twitter activity, users and content including #Bedwetting, between October 2013 and November 2018. Activity was analysed via tweet volume and user adoption. Users were assorted using geographic location, occupation and affiliation data. Content in #Bedwetting Tweets was undertaken by retrieving information about retweets, links, frequently used words and hashtags.
A total of 101 412 tweets and 9957 users utilising #Bedwetting were identified. Most tweets were sent with links (93%). The average ± SD number of tweets using #Bedwetting per month increased from 96 ± 87 in 2013 to 2935 ± 1644 in 2015. Tweet volume decreased to 1960 ± 257 in 2016 and subsequently increased to 2901 ± 1110 in 2017. New users increased from 4 in 2013 to 9957 users in 2018. Users tweeted from 69 countries. Advocacy organisations comprised 35% of the top 100 influencers. Common words in #Bedwetting tweets were 'potty', 'best' and 'training'. Popular associated hashtags were #Pottytraining, #Solutions and #Moms. Hyperlinks in #Bedwetting tweets included advocacy, academic and commercial websites.
Our analysis of #Bedwetting highlights that Twitter is frequently used to discuss the condition's diagnosis and management. Various stakeholders in health care are utilising the platform to build awareness about bedwetting. We identified that Twitter is being employed to drive web traffic to other internet websites.
尿床是一种常见的儿科疾病。#尿床已被确立为用于构建关于该疾病的推特讨论的官方标签。我们分析了有关#尿床的在线推特讨论。
我们使用 Symplur（一个推特分析服务）来聚合 2013 年 10 月至 2018 年 11 月期间推特上关于#尿床的活动、用户和内容，包括#尿床。通过推文数量和用户参与度来分析活动。用户按照地理位置、职业和隶属关系进行分类。在#尿床推文中检索有关转推、链接、常用词和标签的信息，以获取内容信息。
共发现 101412 条推文和 9957 名使用#尿床的用户。大多数推文都带有链接（93%）。每月使用#尿床的推文数量从 2013 年的 96±87 条增加到 2015 年的 2935±1644 条。推文数量在 2016 年减少到 1960±257 条，随后在 2017 年增加到 2901±1110 条。新用户从 2013 年的 4 个增加到 2018 年的 9957 个。用户来自 69 个国家。倡导组织占前 100 名影响者的 35%。#尿床推文中的常用词包括“potty”、“best”和“training”。流行的相关标签包括#Pottytraining、#Solutions 和#Moms。#尿床推文中的超链接包括倡导、学术和商业网站。
我们对#尿床的分析表明，推特经常被用于讨论该疾病的诊断和管理。医疗保健领域的各种利益相关者都在利用该平台提高对尿床的认识。我们发现，推特正被用于引导网络流量到其他互联网网站。
