Taubert, Mark  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-5609, Rigby, Miriam, Murphy, Irene, Jackson, Avril, Coppock, Sarah, Findlay, Melanie, Ragnhild Green, Helgas, Larkin, Philip, Mitrea, Nicoleta, Norris, James and Radbruch, Lukas
      2016.
      
      #EAPC versus #ESMO- comparative 2 year quantitative sentiment analysis of Twitter activity at EAPC and European Cancer Conferences.
      Presented at: 9th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care,
      Dublin, Ireland,
      9-11 June 2016.
      
      Abstract Book of the 9th World Research Congress of the EAPC.
      Palliative Medicine.
      
      
       
      
      Palliative Medicine: 
      SAGE,
      pp. 362-363.
      10.1177/0269216316646056
    
  
  
       
       
     
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Abstract
Background: We collected public Twitter data from EAPC congresses in 2014 and 2015 and compared this with similar size European Oncology events (ESMO/ECC). This poster can only be accessed through Twitter on #EAPC2016TOP Aims: To analyse, quantify and benchmark use of #EAPC2014, #ESMO14, #EAPC2015, #ECC2015 hashtags on Twitter. Methods: An advanced Twitter search using the hashtags described in Aims was conducted by four reviewers independently. Data were collated manually, counted, compared and verified with a third party Twitter analysis tool,Symplur. A timeline was agreed: 7 days prior to start of first day of respective conference, and 7 days after last day of conference. Organisers were approached to ensure that no other hashtags had been circulated, to avoid missing data. Results: The results are displayed in table 1. Sentiment analysis on Twitter showed that conference attendees made mainly positive comments about events and talks. We further sub-categorized Tweets into ´Status update´, ´Slide/Poster Photo upload´,´Other Photo´ content, to further define how users were interacting. Conclusions: For EAPC alone between 2014 and 2015, this represents a year on year increase of 218% for original Tweets and 221% for Total Tweets. Compared to a similar size European cancer conference event, there is potential for an increase in numbers. Photo uploads were research slides and posters, publishing these to a vast audience and thus making data freely available to interested non-attenders worldwide. Pharmaceutical companies´ and charities´ Twitter accounts had some of the highest audience reach.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) | 
|---|---|
| Date Type: | Publication | 
| Status: | Published | 
| Schools: | Schools > Medicine | 
| Publisher: | SAGE | 
| ISSN: | 0269-2163 | 
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 22 June 2020 | 
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2023 02:10 | 
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/132645 | 
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