Twitter Emerges As Reliable Source For Vaccine Research [STUDY]
A new study in the American Journal of Infection Control reveals that Twitter is now a popular and reliable source for receiving and sharing new information about vaccines.
The implications of the finding are potentially huge.
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin analyzed 9,510 vaccination-related tweets from one week in January 2012 to determine the most popular and influential messages.
They then coded a final sample of 2,580 tweets for the following conditions: frequency of sharing, tone toward vaccinations, links to sources (for example, news outlets, advocacy groups, or healthcare providers), and whether the claims being made in each tweet were scientifically substantiated.
Tone-wise,
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