FrançaisWhat is the profile of French doctors on Twitter? You have to find them first ! This appeared to be a good subject for one of the posters we would present at our own conference ;-) Doctors 2.0 & You 2012, in view of the existence of two lists totaling 200 French-speaking doctors curated by Henri Gracies. This blogpost includes the resulting work: a traditional scientific poster and an infography. The project was shared by Denise Silber @health20paris, Mathilde Holard, and Henri Gracies @meditwitt.
The full poster (click here) presents the methodology and details
The infography is below in turquoise.
Note: the analysis, based on data collected in March, April 2012) was limited by the anonymity of the physicians and the ensuing lack of data.
Findings :
1. Approximately one half of the list could be identified as working in France. (109/200).
2. Of those, 50% use a pseudonym and ensure that the reader cannot identify them.
3. Also of note, physicians tweet regarding subjects other than medicine in about half of the tweets that they emit.
4. A distinguishing factor was the fact of being male or female.
a) Those we could identify as male physicians had been on Twitter for a longer period than those identifiable as women.
b) Males also had more followers than the female physicians.
c) Women had a greater tendency to use a pseudonym than men.
d) Few of these Twitter physicians could be identified on Facebook, despite the high presence of the French population on Facebook, given the physicians' anonymity: 29% of our male Twitter physicians and 19% of females could be identified on Facebook.
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