Activity, content, contributors, and influencers of the twitter discussion on urologic oncology

Abstract

Objectives To analyse the activity, content, contributors, and influencers of the Twitter discussion on urologic oncology. Materials and methods We performed a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative Twitter analysis for the hashtags #prostatecancer, #bladdercancer, #kidneycancer, and #testicularcancer. Symplur was used to analyse activity over different time periods and the top influencers of the Twitter discussion. Tweet Archivist and Twitonomy analysis tools were used to assess characteristics of content and contributors. Results Twitter discussion on urologic oncology in 2014 contained 100,987 tweets created by 39,326 participants. Mean monthly tweet activity was 6,603±2,183 for #pros..