In:
Diagnostic Cytopathology, Wiley, Vol. 48, No. 8 ( 2020-08), p. 706-710
Abstract:
Twitter is an expanding social media network among cytopathologists to share knowledge. Tweets are made up of text which may also include images or video. All tweets labeled under a hashtag can be tracked. The #FNAFriday hashtag was created in 2015 by one of the authors (X.J.) to build a community of individuals, to educate and share interesting cases, and highlight a variety of diagnoses with FNA specimens. Methods We retrospectively extracted all tweets labeled with #FNAFriday from April 2015 to mid‐February 2019 (47 mo) using the Twitter search engine. The data point included: author, number of figures, type of cytology‐stain, use of immunocytochemistry, histochemistry or molecular techniques, and the subspeciality. The educational content was categorized as: live‐tweeting, training activities, and publication references. The number if comments, retweets and likes was also recorded. Results A total of 349 original tweets using #FNAFriday were tracked with an average of 7.43 tweets/month. We describe the “top three” countries with most tweets, active users and subspecialties. The most frequent stain was Papanicolau and part of the content of the tweets was using cellblock (14.04%), histologic correlation (10.03%), immunocytochemistry (8.60%), molecular tests (2.01%), gross pictures (4.58%), and radiologic pictures (3.4%). Conclusion The presence of cytopathologists on Twitter who want to share their cases has increased. The weekly FNAFriday label with other cytology hashtags is a specific keyword for those interested in the field.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
8755-1039
,
1097-0339
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2020
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632710-2
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2001251-2
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