#DoctorsSpeakUp: Lessons learned from a pro-vaccine Twitter event - ScienceDirect

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#DoctorsSpeakUp: Lessons learned from a pro-vaccine Twitter event - ScienceDirect

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#DoctorsSpeakUp: Lessons learned from a pro-vaccine Twitter event - ScienceDirect
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Of 847 (87.7%) relevant tweets, 244 (28.8%) were authored by a Twitter user that identified as a parent and 68 (8.0%) by a user that identified as a health professional. With regard to sentiment, 167 (19.7%) were coded as pro-vaccine and 668 (78.9%) were coded as anti-vaccine. Tweet sentiment was significantly associated with type of account (p < 0.001) and tweet content (p = 0.001). Of the 575 unique users in our dataset, 31 (5.4%) were classified as bots using Botometer.
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