RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 International Gynaecological Cancer Society (IGCS) 2020 Annual Global Meeting: Twitter activity analysis
JF International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer
JO Int J Gynecol Cancer
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP ijgc-2021-002781
DO 10.1136/ijgc-2021-002781
A1 Bhandoria, Geetu Prakash
A1 Nair, Navya
A1 Jones, Sadie Esme Fleur
A1 Eriksson, Ane Gerda
A1 Hsu, Heng-Cheng
A1 Noll, Florencia
A1 Ahmed, Wasim
A1 
YR 2021
UL http://ijgc.bmj.com/content/early/2021/09/06/ijgc-2021-002781.abstract
AB Objectives Twitter is the most frequently used social media platform by healthcare practitioners, at medical conferences. This study aimed to analyze Twitter conversations during the virtual International Gynecological Cancer Society 2020 conference to understand the interactions between Twitter users related to the conference.Methods Tweets using the hashtag ‘#IGCS2020’ were searched using the Twitter Search Application Programming Interface (API) during the period 10–13 September 2020. NodeXL Pro was used to retrieve data. The Clauset-Newman-Moore cluster algorithm clustered users into different groups or ‘clusters’ based on how users interacted.Results There were 2009 registrants for the virtual IGCS 2020 conference. The total number of users within the network was 168, and there were 880 edges connecting users. Five types of edges were identified as follows: ‘replies to’ (n=18), ‘mentions’ (n=221), ‘mentions in retweets’ (n=375), retweets (n=198), and tweets (n=68). The most influential account was that of the IGCS account itself (@IGCSociety). The overall network shape resembled a community where distinct groups formed within the network. Our current analyses demonstrated that less than 10% of the total members interacted on Twitter.Conclusion This study identified the most influential Twitter users within the ‘#IGCS2020’ community. he results also confirmed the community network shape of the #IGCS2020 hashtag and found that the most frequent co-related words were ‘ovarian’ and ‘cancer’ (n=39).Data are available upon reasonable request. Data will be provided, on reasonable request.