#neoTwitter: evaluation of its use within the neonatal-perinatal community

Alvaro Proaño; Amy Keir; Douglas M. Campbell; Benjamin Courchia; Michael Narvey; Nicolas A. Bamat

doi:10.1038/s41372-022-01373-x

#neoTwitter: evaluation of its use within the neonatal-perinatal community

Alvaro Proaño, Amy Keir, Douglas M. Campbell, Benjamin Courchia, Michael Narvey, Nicolas A. Bamat

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Twitter is an important tool for digital communication and a growing area for health research [1]. However, given the vast amount of information available to users daily (e.g., 500 million tweets/day), it is important to organize tweets so that users can access relevant information efficiently [2]. One way of doing so is through hashtags, used to label tweets [2]. In neonatology, several specific hashtags have been used; however, a unifying umbrella hashtag broadly targeting neonatal content had not been specified.

On World Prematurity Day (November 17, 2020), our group registered the hashtag #neoTwitter in Symplur’s ‘Healthcare Hashtag Project’ to help unify neonatal content under a common hashtag [3]. We sought to evaluate neonatal stakeholders’ subsequent use of

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1409-1411
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Perinatology
Volume	42
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-022-01373-x
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022
Externally published	Yes

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