Study of French doctors on Twitter: 50% use pseudonym

What 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.Download Poster_twitter_2012_V2_ebook-1The 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'...
Source: Denise Silber's eHealth - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Doctors 2.0 Health 2.0 Source Type: blogs