Use Of Twitter Research Articles

Police Use of Twitter During a Sporting Mega-Event

Abstract There exists a range of sporting mega-event security case studies from respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, International Association Football Federation (FIFA) World Cup, and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Championships. This literature tends to focus on outlining the policing and physical security arrangements at respective Games and the social consequences of these. However, no studies have examined police use of social media at a mega-event. This article addresses this gap by analysing the Twitter activities of social media accounts from police forces and units within Glasgow and London during the Euro 2020 Finals. The article makes an empirical contribution to the mega-events and policing literature by identifying that the police used Twitter in five strategic ways: security spectacle, demonstration of effective partnership working, responsibilization of citizens, public feedback and reporting, and real-time crowd management. Such findings have important implications for the use of social media by police practitioners at future mega-events and for football policing.

Twitter trends in #Parasitology determined by text mining and topic modelling

This study investigated the emergence and use of Twitter, as of July 2023 being rebranded as X, as the main forum for social media communication in parasitology. A dataset of tweets was constructed using a keyword search of Twitter with the search terms ‘malaria’, ‘Plasmodium’, ‘Leishmania’, ‘Trypanosoma’, ‘Toxoplasma’ and ‘Schistosoma’ for the period from 2011 to 2020. Exploratory data analyses of tweet content were conducted, including language, usernames and hashtags. To identify parasitology topics of discussion, keywords and phrases were extracted using KeyBert and biterm topic modelling. The sentiment of tweets was analysed using VADER. The results show that the number of tweets including the keywords increased from 2011 (for malaria) and 2013 (for the others) to 2020, with the highest number of tweets being recorded in 2020. The maximum number of yearly tweets for Plasmodium, Leishmania, Toxoplasma, Trypanosoma and Schistosoma was recorded in 2020 (2804, 2161, 1570, 680 and 360 tweets, respectively). English was the most commonly used language for tweeting, although the percentage varied across the searches. In tweets mentioning Leishmania, only ∼37% were in English, with Spanish being more common. Across all the searches, Portuguese was another common language found. Popular tweets on Toxoplasma contained keywords relating to mental health including depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. The Trypanosoma tweets referenced drugs (benznidazole, nifurtimox) and vectors (bugs, triatomines, tsetse), while the Schistosoma tweets referenced areas of biology including pathology, eggs and snails. A wide variety of individuals and organisations were shown to be associated with Twitter activity. Many journals in the parasitology arena regularly tweet about publications from their journal, and professional societies promote activity and events that are important to them. These represent examples of trusted sources of information, often by experts in their fields. Social media activity of influencers, however, who have large numbers of followers, might have little or no training in science. The existence of such tweeters does raise cause for concern to parasitology, as one may start to question the quality of information being disseminated.

Women-Focused Nonprofit Organizations and Their Use of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characterizing a Gendered Pandemic Through Information, Community, and Action.

This study investigates how gender-focused nonprofit organizations used Twitter to advocate on behalf of women and girls during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected tweets from five nonprofits including Canadian Women's Foundation, Anova, UN Women, National Organization for Women, and Planned Parenthood. Through thematic analysis, we identified nine gender-related themes: safety, physical health, mental health, labor, economic situation, intersectional concerns, leadership, the role of gender in pandemic response and recovery plans, and supporting women's organizations. A subsequent content analysis revealed that women's safety, labor, and economic situation were the most prominent themes. It was also revealed that safety and intersectional concerns were raised by all organizations. We applied the theoretical framework of microblogging functions which distinguishes between information-, community-, and action-oriented tweets. Most of the tweets in our study were informational, much fewer were associated with calls to action and community engagement. Our analysis also revealed relationships between the microblogging functions and the tweets' content themes. We found that informational tweets addressed women's safety, physical health, economic situation, and the role of gender in pandemic response and recovery plans, while community-oriented tweets addressed women's labor, leadership, and supporting women's organizations. Finally, each microblogging function elicited different levels of user engagement on Twitter, with the community-oriented function receiving the largest number of "likes" compared with the information- and action-oriented functions. Our study adds to the growing body of research on social media use by feminist groups and provides novel theoretical insights by expanding the microblogging framework.

The lived experience of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter: Content analysis.

People with disabilities (PWDs) are at greater risk of COVID-19 infection, complications, and death, and experience more difficulty accessing care. We analyzed Twitter tweets to identify important topics and investigate health policies' effects on PWDs. Twitter's application programming interface was used to access its public COVID-19 stream. English-language tweets from January 2020 to January 2022 containing a combination of keywords related to COVID-19, disability, discrimination, and inequity were collected and refined to exclude duplicates, replies, and retweets. The remaining tweets were analyzed for user demographics, content, and long-term availability. The collection yielded 94,814 tweets from 43,296 accounts. During the observation period, 1068 (2.5%) accounts were suspended and 1088 (2.5%) accounts were deleted. Account suspension and deletion among verified users tweeting about COVID-19 and disability were 0.13% and 0.3%, respectively. Emotions were similar among active, suspended, and deleted users, with general negative and positive emotions most common followed by sadness, trust, anticipation, and anger. The overall average sentiment for the tweets was negative. Ten of the 12 topics identified (96.8%) related to pandemic effects on PWDs; "politics that rejects and leaves the disabled, elderly, and children behind" (48.3%) and "efforts to support PWDs in the COVID crisis" (31.8%) were most common. The sample of tweets by organizations (43.9%) was higher for this topic than for other COVID-19-related topics the authors have investigated. The primary discussion addressed how pandemic politics and policies disadvantage PWDs, older adults, and children, and secondarily expressed support for these populations. The increased level of Twitter use by organizations suggests a higher level of organization and advocacy within the disability community than in other groups. Twitter may facilitate recognition of increased harm to or discrimination against specific populations such as people living with disability during national health events.

The relationship between internet use and depressive symptoms among high school students

Introduction/Objective. Problematic internet use has been associated with various mental health problems. The objective of this study was to investigate the internet use and its relationship with depressive symptoms among high school students. Methods. This cross-sectional observational study included 620 students from the first to the fourth grade of four high schools in Pozarevac, Serbia. The research data were obtained from an ad hoc designed questionnaire on socio-demographic data, health habits, and the internet use, Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC). Results. Out of 620 students (66.9% girls) there were 389 respondents (62.7%) who reported normal (n = 40), or average internet use (n = 349) with a mild level of addiction, while 226 (36.5%) subjects belonged to problematic internet use group, and five students (0.8%) showed a high level of internet addiction. A CES-DC score ? 15, considered indicative of clinically significant depressive symptoms, was found significantly more frequent among internet addicts compared to internet normal users (78.4% vs. 46.5%, respectively). Among internet addicts there was a significantly higher percentage of those who used psychologist/psychotherapist help compared to internet normal users (29.4% vs. 12.1%, respectively). The logistic regression analysis showed that internet addiction (IAT score ? 50) was the strongest independent predictor of clinically significant depressive symptoms (OR = 3.32; 95% CI = 2.24?4.91), after adjusting for confounders (female gender, urban living, Tik Tok and Twitter use, sports activities, and the use of the internet for learning or for aimless ?surfing?). Conclusion. We show that internet addiction is positively related to clinically significant depressive symptoms among high school students. Health education focused on the proper use of the internet may be regarded as mental health promotion.

Current landscape of social media use pertaining to glioblastoma by various stakeholders.

Given the potential for social media to allow widespread public engagement, its role in healthcare, including in cancer care as a support network, is garnering interest. To date, the use of social media in neuro-oncology has not been systematically explored. In the current manuscript, we sought to review Twitter use on glioblastoma among patients, caregivers, providers, researchers, and other stakeholders. The Twitter application programming interface (API) database was surveyed from inception to May 2022 to identify tweets about glioblastoma. Number of tweet likes, retweets, quotes, and total engagement were noted for each tweet. Geographic location, number of followers, and number of Tweets were noted for users. We also categorized Tweets based on their underlying themes. A natural language processing (NLP) algorithm was used to assign a polarity score, subjectivity score, and analysis label to each Tweet for sentiment analysis. A total of 1690 unique tweets from 1000 accounts were included in our analyses. The frequency of tweets increased from 2013 and peaked in 2018. The most common category among users was MD/researchers (21.6%, n = 216), followed by Media/News (20%, n = 200) and Business (10.7%); patients or caregivers accounted for only 4.7% (n = 47) while medical centers, journals, and foundations accounted for 5.4%, 3.7%, and 2.1%. The most common subjects that Tweets covered included research (54%), followed by personal experience (18.2%) and raising awareness (14%). In terms of sentiment, 43.6% of Tweets were classified as positive, 41.6% as neutral, and 14.9% as negative; a subset analysis of "personal experience" tweets revealed a higher proportion of negative Tweets (31.5%) and less neutral tweets (25%). Only media (β = 8.4; 95% CI [4.4, 12.4]) and follower count (minimally) predicted higher levels of Tweet engagement. This comprehensive analysis of tweets on glioblastoma found that the academic community are the most common user group on Twitter. Sentiment analysis revealed that most negative tweets are related to personal experience. These analyses provide the basis for further work into supporting and developing the care of patients with glioblastoma.

INNOVATION IN ADVERTISEMENT OF PRODUCT BRANDS BY INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY

Advertising is an important part of the overall marketing plan of almost every organization that provides a product or a service to the general public. The advertisers want to attract customers to a specific store or place of business both at local and international level. Advertisement of products was very difficult then as there were few mercantiles to advertise their products as there were only a few advertising agencies to advertise such products across the world. However, the advent of technology has broken down the bureaucratic bottleneck that hinders the flow of advertising agencies to reach its targeted audience with specific products or services. This innovation in technology has ushered in the use of many advertisement agencies on internet network site to reach their potential customers across the world. In most recent times, the use of FaceBook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Newspapers and Magazines, Radio and Television and other media of communication have brought in the integration of marketing communication to reach out within a specific period of time its numerous customers across the world. For any products to be build and sustain for development, there must be the presence of Mass Media Agencies, who are the vehicles of information to disseminate, and educate numerous customers on any new brands of products that is new in the market for people to patronize. The integration of marketing communication has brought in a new strategies to targets its customers on when, where and how a product can be located, bought and how it can be delivered to its ultimate consumers. The study adopted the library research techniques, using books, journals and magazines for its sources of materials. Uses and gratification and the Diffusion of Innovation theories were used to explain the study. Discussions and findings were drawn from the research materials gathered for adequate argument on the topic in question.

E-Governance through social media: An Analysis on the use of Facebook and Twitter by Indian Government

e-Governance through social media: An Analysis on the use of Facebook and Twitter by Indian Government

E-governance through social media: an analysis on the use of Facebook and Twitter by Indian Government

E-governance through social media: an analysis on the use of Facebook and Twitter by Indian Government

REFLECTING ON TWITTER: A PROTOTYPE FOR HYPERMODERN SOCIETY

Social scientists have been discussing the advent of an “information society”, as information technologies have started to dominate social life since at least the 1970s. The most important infrastructural element of this information society is the internet which enables dissemination of information in a very efficient and effective way, independent from the physical proximity between two networked computers. The internet is non-hierarchical (horizontal) in the sense that it does not have an ultimate power center which determines the structure of the networks and the contents that flow within and between networks. The formation of the networks and the content of information disseminated through them are shaped by the users. Hence, the interplay between internet and individuals is bidirectional; individuals structure the networks and the structure of networks, in turn, shapes the perception of individuals regarding self, community, and time. This paper analyzes how and why people use Twitter—both a social networking site and a micro-blogger; to what extent Twitter use reflect the constituting principles of contemporary society such as conception of time and how it may affect our notion of community and social relations. It argues that Twitter represents a replica of hypermodern society with the apprehension of time streaming embedded in its use, clustering of users around personal and professional communities and centers and the strategies that users develop in order to deal with the complexity of online hypermodernity. Twitter, and social network sites in general, are structured by the values and conceptions of the contemporary society and we need to consider them within a greater zeitgeist. The main function of these services is to reinforce and enhance the conceptions and experience of hypermodernity and to increase the rate of social change further.

Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’nün Covid-19 Pandemisi Öncesi ve Sırasında Twitter Kullanımı: Tweetlerin Duygu ve Metin Analizi

Social media as a form of mass self-communication offers a great deal of potential and opportunities for users and organizations to get, diffuse, redistribute, and monitor information and messages due to its features of accessibility, digitality, and time-space independence. Especially during a crisis, being able to harness the power of social media is an im- perative management practice not only to provide the public with accurate information but also to deter misleading claims and rumors regarding the subject. Based on this assumption, this study aims to measure and compare the overall sentiment of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) tweets before and during the coronavirus pandemic. Along with the overall senti- ment of tweets, the contents of tweets, and the WHO’s Twitter use practices before and during the pandemic were assessed in the framework of crisis management and health communication. Within the scope of our study, the WHO’s 34.673 tweets between 2018 and 2021 were examined with sentiment and textual analysis. The study also indicates the health policies be- fore and during the covid19 pandemic and crisis management tactics by analyzing and close reading the WHO’s tweets. The findings reveal that the WHO posted more tweets to inform the public and minimize infodemic while it deliberately preferred positive messages (words and sentiments) in its tweets during the pandemic.

How Twitter use in Rheumatology has Evolved.

How Twitter use in Rheumatology has Evolved.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND E-COMMERCE

The study examines the factors that contribute to the success of small and medium-sized exporting firms (SMEs) in international markets, and finds that market intelligence, technology, price, and promotional strategies are key determinants of SMEs viability. The study also identifies competitive advantage as a mediator between pricing capabilities and SME performance. The findings offer insights that can be useful for micro- and small-sized businesses looking to expand into international markets. Moreover, the study evaluates the impact of a fictitious guarantee on consumer confidence in businesses, using a poll of social media users in Belgrade, Serbia. The study finds that a consumer's interest in seeking out data is related to their trust and intention to purchase, and suggests that firms can build more effective marketing strategies by promoting the validity of their product attributes. The study alos focuses on how industrial (B2B) firms use social media to automate their operations, and evaluates the effectiveness of social media tactics such as digital impact, social networking sites, and Facebook and Twitter use. The study presents an integrated view of social media in a B2B context, and the findings can be used for social media instruction by both academics and practitioners.

Tweeting television between innovation and normalization: How Lebanese television and audiences are making use of Twitter in political talk shows

Traditional media have progressively integrated newer media practices, with the constant emergence of new digital technologies, without abandoning their former ones. The adoption of Twitter by TV channels and by other social actors during political talk shows is a case in point. This article aims to assess whether the hybridization of TV talk shows and Twitter has innovated or normalized existing patterns of communication. In the former case, by enabling more interaction between different actors and space for audience deliberation, or in the latter case, by reproducing a traditional one-way communication and a centralized network of information that remains controlled and oriented by the elite (journalists and politicians). The incorporation of older and emergent media logic has an impact on the construction and distribution of political information as well as on the power relationships between journalists, politicians, and TV audiences. Besides allowing political talk shows to expand their flow of information, and to promote their news online, hybridized practices have not only altered the way citizens consume and engage with political information but also how they counter-frame traditional political media content by producing new ones. The research methodology consists of descriptive, content, and network analyses of tweets collected from three Lebanese local TV political talk show “Sarelwa2et” (MTV), “Btefro’ aa Watan” (Al Jadeed), and “Vision 2030” (LBCI) between February and March 2022. Results revealed that TV talk shows are making use of Twitter as a top-down transmitter of information and resorting poorly to its interactive potential. Some newer media practices of Twitter, such as @mention and replies are being applied but only to interact with politicians and journalists, failing to engage with a larger array of voices and thus, leading to an elite-centric discourse within the network. Also, tweets are mostly used to inform audiences and promote TV programs. In addition, network analyses of talk shows via hashtags demonstrated the central and not monopolized role of politicians and journalists as influencers, bridges, and quick spreaders of information. Finally, content analysis of dual screeners’ tweets (n=6000) indicated very little space in a Habermasian public sphere. The total of subjective opinions, irony, and attack/insult tweets are still higher than the total of the introduction of new issues and counter-frames tweets.

Miten johtajuutta viestitään? Suomalaiset toimitusjohtajat Twitterissä

How is leadership communicated? Finnish CEOs on Twitter Twitter offers CEOs the opportunity to communicate with a wide audience. For corporate stakeholders, CEO communication is important because it can affect, for example, the corporate image or the information that company’s stakeholders receive about the company’s vision or values. So far, however, not much is known about the Twitter communication of Finnish CEOs or the leadership that they communicate on Twitter, so this article addresses these aspects through the strategic leadership communication theory (Ki 2015) and Glick’s (2011) CEO roles. The data have been collected over a period of seven months and consists of a total of 132 public references from the CEOs whose companies are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange or the TE500 CEO list. The data were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The main results show that the Twitter use of Finnish CEOs is interactive yet rather inactive

Use of Twitter for Public Education on Stunting in Indonesia

Stunting has for decades become a serious development problem in Indonesia. In 2022 President Joko Widodo sets a target of reducing stunting prevalence rate from 30.8% in 2018 to 14% in 2024. A key program in the Indonesian government’s strategies to achieve this goal is a massive public education campaign on stunting. This article provides a review of the communication approach adopted by the government in its social media campaign via Twitter. The results show that various government institutions have adopted the persuasive communcation approach in doing so. A grass-root community survey is needed to assess the campaign’s effectiveness.

Stylometry analysis of the French presidential election

Abstract This study analyzes the style and content of 25,590 tweets sent by eight candidates during the French presidential election (from 1 September 2021 to 24 April 2022). During this campaign, the candidates have used Twitter intensively to motivate their supporters, putting forward some propositions or to announce their presence on a TV show or at a rally. This study demonstrates that all candidates have sent more tweets during this period, particularly during the last 2 months. In their tweets, they have put forward their propositions by including mentions (@ZemmourEric), hashtags (#Elysee2022), and URLs to information sources supporting their views. As main topics, economic concern ranks first (36% of all tweets) followed by security questions (16.4%) and ecology (13.7%) with the intensity varying among runners. The main target of their criticisms was the incumbent president Macron, with only a few attacks on other candidates. Finally, one can observe a more intense use of Twitter by extreme political parties compared to traditional ones.

Twitter in Initial Teacher Training: Interaction with Social Media as a Source of Teacher Professional Development for Social Studies Prospective Educators

The use of social media is now as prevalent as ever, and its educational ramifications still need to be fully explored, especially in initial teacher training. The aim of this study is to analyze social studies prospective teachers’ perceptions regarding the usefulness of social media for teacher professional development, and to generate communication, learning and engagement. This research also has the objective of exploring the effects of an intervention during an academic semester with three different groups of university students, applying a didactic strategy based on the use of Twitter, monitoring the interventions of 122 participants. A quantitative analysis was used to process the information obtained using questionnaires as well as the data obtained using MSocial, a tool for Social Network Analysis (SNA). Results indicate that, while pre-service teachers are not necessarily skeptical of the potential of social media for educational purposes, systematic interventions that promote interaction can positively affect their perception of the usefulness of social media. Results also show that the group where prospective educators interacted among themselves the most using Twitter during the interventions was the one that showed a significant increase in prospective teachers’ perception of the educational potential of social media.

How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement

With the COVID-19 global pandemic, epidemiologists and other public health professionals have become important sources of insight for the general public. One popular means for reaching public audiences is the microblog Twitter. Understanding how prominent professionals tweet–and what might contribute to the visibility or reach of their tweets–can reveal insights into the emerging digital genres scientists use for communicating across specialist and non-specialist domains. Toward that aim, this study examines the use of Twitter by ten epidemiologists during a one-month period in 2020, focusing specifically on those with a strong following on the platform. The research analyzes 143 high- and low-engagement tweets in several genre-related areas: tweet types and elements; tweet topics, purposes, and audiences; and author identities. The study demonstrates that “tweeting science” involves the use of a range of emerging Twitter genres and identities that together engage diverse audiences for purposes. The paper also discusses the implications of this research for genre theory and ESP instruction.

Protesting is Not Everything: Analyzing Twitter Use During Electoral Events in Non-democratic Contexts

Despite the fact that during political protests, Twitter usage has been substantially studied in various contexts, there are still some significant gaps in our understanding of the ways that this microblogging network is employed in regular political happenings, e.g., elections, particularly in authoritarian countries. As a result, it remains unclear if citizens in non-democratic countries use Twitter to protest at the time of regular political events as the time of uprisings or not. This investigation tries to address this gap by providing some empirical evidence from the Iranian Twittersphere during the 2017 presidential election. Having employed networked framing theory, we combined textual and network analytic approaches to investigate a sample of 10,416 tweets of the most influential users in the retweet (RT) network. Findings demonstrate that Iranian users did not significantly challenge the regime and power relations in Iran. They framed the election in a non-critical way dealing with routine political and election frays and debates. They also preferred to attack politicians rather than discuss contentious and deliberate politics. Thus, this research reveals that Twitter is not always a tool for protesting against non-democratic regimes. At the time of electoral events, it could be used as an ordinary communication platform.