Two-Year Experience in "Tweeting the Meeting" During the Scientific Sessions - Rapid Report From the Japanese Circulation Society

Atsushi Mizuno; Takuya Kishi; Chisa Matsumoto; Mari Ishida; Shoji Sanada; Memori Fukuda; Yuki Sahashi; Tadafumi Sugimoto; Miki Hirano; Yusuke Yoshikawa; Erika Yamamoto; Takeshi Kimura; Koichi Node

doi:10.1253/circrep.CR-20-0093

Two-Year Experience in "Tweeting the Meeting" During the Scientific Sessions - Rapid Report From the Japanese Circulation Society

Circ Rep. 2020 Sep 25;2(11):691-694. doi: 10.1253/circrep.CR-20-0093.

Authors

Atsushi Mizuno^{1

2

3

4}, Takuya Kishi^{5

4}, Chisa Matsumoto^{6

4}, Mari Ishida^{7

4}, Shoji Sanada^{8

4}, Memori Fukuda^{9

4}, Yuki Sahashi^{10

11

4}, Tadafumi Sugimoto^{12

4}, Miki Hirano^{13

4}, Yusuke Yoshikawa¹⁴, Erika Yamamoto¹⁴, Takeshi Kimura¹⁴, Koichi Node^{15

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, St. Luke's International Hospital Tokyo Japan.
² Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA.
³ Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA.
⁴ Information and Communication Committee, the Japanese Circulation Society Tokyo Japan.
⁵ Department of Graduate School of Medicine (Cardiology), International University of Health and Welfare Okawa Japan.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Center for Health Surveillance & Preventive Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Tokyo Japan.
⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan.
⁸ Center for Clinical Research and Innovation, Osaka City University Hospital Osaka Japan.
⁹ Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine Gifu Japan.
¹¹ Department of Health Data Science, Graduate School of Data Science, Yokohama City University Yokohama Japan.
¹² Department of Clinical Laboratory, Mie University Hospital Tsu Japan.
¹³ Department of Nursing, Kameda Medical Center Kamogawa Japan.
¹⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University Kyoto Japan.
¹⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University Saga Japan.

Abstract

Background: Twitter has become increasingly popular at annual medical congresses as a platform to communicate to attendees. The aim of this study is to reveal the twitter usage in the annual congress of the Japanese Cirsulation Society. Methods and Results: We compared the total number of tweets during the Japanese Circulation Society's annual meetings in 2019 and 2020. The total number of tweets increased from 7,587 in 2019 to 23,867 in 2020. Most tweets were retweets (>70%), and approximately half of Twitter users tweeted only once. Conclusions: Twitter usage during the Japanese Circulation Society's annual meeting increased from 2019 to 2020, and a large number of tweets were from Twitter ambassadors of the Japanese Circulation Society. However, further evaluation is needed, with future studies investigating the usefulness of this platform.

Keywords: Annual congress; Cardiology; Twitter.