Abstract:Background: Tweets can provide broad, real time perspectives about health and medical diagnoses that can inform disease surveillance in geographic regions. Less is known however about how much individuals post about common health conditions or what they post about.
Objective:We sought to collect and analyze tweets from one state about high prevalence health conditions and characterize tweet volume and content.Methods: We collected 408,296,620 tweets originating in Pennsylvania from 2012-2015 and compared the p… Show more
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