Use of Twitter in Neurology: Boon or Bane?

Biswamohan Mishra; Monica Saini; Carolynne M Doherty; Robert D S Pitceathly; Roopa Rajan; Omar K Siddiqi; Gita Ramdharry; Ajay Asranna; Pedro Jose Tomaselli; Allan G Kermode; Jawad A Bajwa; Divyani Garg; Venugopalan Y Vishnu

doi:10.2196/25229

Use of Twitter in Neurology: Boon or Bane?

J Med Internet Res. 2021 May 14;23(5):e25229. doi: 10.2196/25229.

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¹ Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
² Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Novena, Singapore.
³ Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
⁵ Department of Neurology, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia.
⁶ Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India.
⁷ Department of Neurosciences and Behaviour Sciences, Clinical Hospital of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
⁸ Department of Neurology, Perron Institute, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
⁹ Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁰ Department of Neurology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 33988522
PMCID: PMC8164119
DOI: 10.2196/25229

Abstract

Twitter is a free, open access social media platform that is widely used in medicine by physicians, scientists, and patients. It provides an opportunity for advocacy, education, and collaboration. However, it is likely not utilized to its full advantage by many disciplines in medicine, and pitfalls exist in its use. In particular, there has not been a review of Twitter use and its applications in the field of neurology. This review seeks to provide an understanding of the current use of Twitter in the field of neurology to assist neurologists in engaging with this potentially powerful application to support their work.

Keywords: Twitter; contemporary issues; neurology; research; tweet chats; tweetorials.

©Biswamohan Mishra, Monica Saini, Carolynne M Doherty, Robert D S Pitceathly, Roopa Rajan, Omar K Siddiqi, Gita Ramdharry, Ajay Asranna, Pedro Jose Tomaselli, Allan G Kermode, Jawad A Bajwa, Divyani Garg, Venugopalan Y Vishnu. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 14.05.2021.

Use of Twitter in Neurology: Boon or Bane?

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