The Washington Post reports that researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center recently analyzed 28 million tweets containing hashtags like #vape, #ecigs and #ejuice to build a monitoring tool that tracks who is commenting about e-cigarettes and what they’re saying. They hope to “understand who is using them to quit smoking, who is using them for other reasons, and how and to whom they’re being marketed.”
Researchers spent time before releasing the study building a database of vaping terms and accounts in the Twitterverse. Once hashtags were filtered, they then classified 13,146 tweets by hand and by computer to determine who liked a brand versus themes. The team presented its study recently at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.
For the full story, visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/02/24/someone-is-tracking-how-much-you-vape-on-twitter/.
Your Vaping Tweets May Be Included in Clinical Research
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