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COVID-19 Public Health Communication on X (Formerly Twitter): Cross-Sectional Study of Message Type, Sentiment, and Source

COVID-19 Public Health Communication on X (Formerly Twitter): Cross-Sectional Study of Message Type, Sentiment, and Source

Final keywords Data extraction An academic researcher access was applied for with Twitter. 867,485 tweets extracted. Allocate sentiment to each tweet Random selection of 260 tweets for sentiment allocation (positive, negative, and neutral). A total of 3 coders manually assigned sentiments to 1 set of 260 random tweets. Using majority voting, out of 260 tweets, coders agreed on 247 tweets (2 or 3 coders voted the same). Kappa statistic calculated between all coders and the models.

Sana Parveen, Agustin Garcia Pereira, Nathaly Garzon-Orjuela, Patricia McHugh, Aswathi Surendran, Heike Vornhagen, Akke Vellinga

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e59687

Understanding Loneliness Through Analysis of Twitter and Reddit Data: Comparative Study

Understanding Loneliness Through Analysis of Twitter and Reddit Data: Comparative Study

Relevant tweets about loneliness were gathered and stored in a database. Twitter data analysis involved the following 3 stages: (1) data collection (tweet collection); (2) division of the collected data into negative and other tweets through preliminary analysis (sentiment analysis of tweets); and (3) further analysis of tweets with negative sentiments through manual coding to find relevant themes and categories (manual coding and analysis of tweets). Pipeline for processing Twitter data.

Hurmat Ali Shah, Mowafa Househ

Interact J Med Res 2025;14:e49464

Unraveling the Use of Disinformation Hashtags by Social Bots During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Networks Analysis

Unraveling the Use of Disinformation Hashtags by Social Bots During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Networks Analysis

It is worth noting that most of the tweets posted by nonbot users came from official accounts of institutions such as the World Health Organization, ministries of health, or entities related to public health. These messages focused on reporting on the evolution of the pandemic; the number of deaths; infection rates; and the health measures implemented, such as lockdowns and vaccination campaigns to contain the spread of the virus.

Victor Suarez-Lledo, Esther Ortega-Martin, Jesus Carretero-Bravo, Begoña Ramos-Fiol, Javier Alvarez-Galvez

JMIR Infodemiology 2025;5:e50021

Wellness Influencer Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media: A Longitudinal Observational Study

Wellness Influencer Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media: A Longitudinal Observational Study

Tweets were deduplicated before analysis, as some accounts reshared content on multiple days. The distribution of these tweets across the timeline is depicted in Figure 2. The number of tweets containing a vaccine-related keyword per day for each group over the investigation period. To evaluate the stance expressed in these tweets regarding the COVID-19 vaccination, we used a pretrained transformer-based model.

Gabrielle O'Brien, Ronith Ganjigunta, Paramveer S Dhillon

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e56651

Digital Epidemiology of Prescription Drug References on X (Formerly Twitter): Neural Network Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis

Digital Epidemiology of Prescription Drug References on X (Formerly Twitter): Neural Network Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis

This contrasts with tweets that referred to drugs via their street names (eg, Vikes, Oxys, etc), where individuals would, at times, openly and informally discuss their drug use. Furthermore, in contrast to tweets using street names, LDA more clearly categorized tweets containing brand names of drugs into specific drug categories, and as noted, many such tweets contained discussion of political events. Tweets containing street names were more difficult to classify using LDA for 2 reasons.

Varun K Rao, Danny Valdez, Rasika Muralidharan, Jon Agley, Kate S Eddens, Aravind Dendukuri, Vandana Panth, Maria A Parker

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e57885

A Typology of Social Media Use by Human Service Nonprofits: Mixed Methods Study

A Typology of Social Media Use by Human Service Nonprofits: Mixed Methods Study

To classify the full set of tweets, we first manually coded a subset of the full data set (n=10,809 tweets) into 7 emergent categories (Table 1). These human-labeled tweets were used as the training data set to train a supervised machine learning algorithm to classify the remaining tweets. Figure 1 illustrates the mixed methods approach. Coding protocol. Mixed methods approach. API: application programming interface; LDA: latent Dirichlet allocation; SA: sexual assault.

Jia Xue, Micheal L Shier, Junxiang Chen, Yirun Wang, Chengda Zheng, Chen Chen

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e51698

Pediatric Cancer Communication on Twitter: Natural Language Processing and Qualitative Content Analysis

Pediatric Cancer Communication on Twitter: Natural Language Processing and Qualitative Content Analysis

Removing duplicates resulted in a total of 161,135 tweets from 40,289 unique users. All unique tweets were used for lexicon-based sentiment analysis. Among the 161,135 tweets from 40,289 unique accounts, we then randomly sampled a subset of 800 tweets and analyzed them using a directed content approach. Of the subset of tweets, 300 were randomly sampled and proportionately stratified by pandemic period (prepandemic, during the pandemic, and postpandemic).

Nancy Lau, Xin Zhao, Alison O'Daffer, Hannah Weissman, Krysta Barton

JMIR Cancer 2024;10:e52061

A Content Analysis of Indoor Tanning Twitter Chatter During COVID-19 Shutdowns: Cross-Sectional Qualitative Study

A Content Analysis of Indoor Tanning Twitter Chatter During COVID-19 Shutdowns: Cross-Sectional Qualitative Study

We removed tweets that were advertisements, pornography, or from accounts that became private or were suspended between the data capture and the qualitative coding process in April 2021 (Figure 1). Of the 5811 tweets captured, we randomly sampled 20% (n=1165) of eligible tweets captured per week during the sampling window to capture conversation from the entire sampling window, consistent with other studies of tweets [18]. Table 1 contains paraphrased tweets to protect the privacy of the users.

Laurie Groshon, Molly E Waring, Aaron J Blashill, Kristen Dean, Sanaya Bankwalla, Lindsay Palmer, Sherry Pagoto

JMIR Dermatol 2024;7:e54052

Use of Social Media for Health Advocacy for Digital Communities: Descriptive Study

Use of Social Media for Health Advocacy for Digital Communities: Descriptive Study

An analysis of 750 randomly selected tweets from 188 different civil rights and advocacy organizations found that only 2% of sampled tweets leveraged partners through showcasing public events and direct action [18]. In the analysis, only 0.27% (ie, 3 of 750 Tweets analyzed) of sampled tweets incorporated the advocacy tactic of coalition building by promoting community and professional partnerships.

Chidimma Ogechukwu Ezeilo, Nicholas Leon, Anushka Jajodia, Hae-Ra Han

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e51752