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SUBMITTER: Yoon S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3694275 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yoon Sunmoo S Elhadad Noémie N Bakken Suzanne S
American journal of preventive medicine 20130701 1
Use of data generated through social media for health studies is gradually increasing. Twitter is a short-text message system developed 6 years ago, now with more than 100 million users generating over 300 million Tweets every day. Twitter may be used to gain real-world insights to promote healthy behaviors. The purposes of this paper are to describe a practical approach to analyzing Tweet contents and to illustrate an application of the approach to the topic of physical activity. The approach i ...[more]