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Leveraging Social Media Data to Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Residents' Dietary Behaviors: Observational Study

Leveraging Social Media Data to Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on Residents' Dietary Behaviors: Observational Study

To achieve this, we collected and analyzed a large pool of images posted by individuals on the popular social media platform, Twitter. Twitter is one of the most diverse social media platforms in terms of user age [8]. Given that Twitter has limited contextual information due to tweet length restrictions and the increasing number of multimedia postings [9], our study uses text with image data to learn peoples’ dietary behaviors to learn about population-level dietary behavior in a more comprehensive way.

Chuqin Li, Alexis Jordan, Yaorong Ge, Albert Park

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e51638

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2021 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guidelines on Public Perspectives Toward Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Thematic and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter (Rebranded as X)

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2021 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guidelines on Public Perspectives Toward Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Thematic and Sentiment Analysis on Twitter (Rebranded as X)

Our research approach consisted of seven steps: (1) developing Twitter search terms, (2) establishing a period from which tweets would be collected, (3) using the Twitter application programming interface (API) to collect tweets within the defined search period, (4) processing tweets to enhance the accuracy of data analyses, (5) performing sentiment analysis using a Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach (Ro BERTa), (6) identifying themes among tweets through word frequency, and (7) collecting and further

Iliya Khakban, Shagun Jain, Joseph Gallab, Blossom Dharmaraj, Fangwen Zhou, Cynthia Lokker, Wael Abdelkader, Dena Zeraatkar, Jason W Busse

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e65087

Linguistic Markers of Pain Communication on X (Formerly Twitter) in US States With High and Low Opioid Mortality: Machine Learning and Semantic Network Analysis

Linguistic Markers of Pain Communication on X (Formerly Twitter) in US States With High and Low Opioid Mortality: Machine Learning and Semantic Network Analysis

The Twitter application programming interface (API) for academics was used to collect tweets from January to December 2021. To analyze linguistic differences in pain-related discussions, we selected tweets from the 2 states with the highest opioid mortality rates (Florida and Ohio) and the 2 with the lowest rates (South and North Dakota) in 2021 [24].

ShinYe Kim, Winson Fu Zun Yang, Zishan Jiwani, Emily Hamm, Shreya Singh

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e67506

Stigma Attitudes Toward HIV/AIDS From 2011 Through 2023 in Japan: Retrospective Study in Japan

Stigma Attitudes Toward HIV/AIDS From 2011 Through 2023 in Japan: Retrospective Study in Japan

Stigma can manifest as various messages, eliciting message responses, and ultimately causing message effects, as defined by Smith’s stigma-communication model, which can be used to analyze tweets from X (formerly known as Twitter) [17]. A message refers to the intent of a tweet, such as a label intended to reinforce societal prejudices. A message response is a reaction or interaction generated by another user in relation to the initial message, such as accessing relevant social attitudes or stereotypes.

Yi Piao, Nao Taguchi, Keisuke Harada, Kunihiro Hirahara, Yosuke Takaku, John Austin, KuanYeh Lee, Yui Shiozawa, Yunfei Cheng, Yoji Inoue

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e69696

Types of HPV Vaccine Misinformation Circulating on Twitter (X) That Parents Find Most Concerning: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Survey and Content Analysis

Types of HPV Vaccine Misinformation Circulating on Twitter (X) That Parents Find Most Concerning: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Survey and Content Analysis

One study found that about a quarter of HPV-related content on Twitter contained misinformation about the HPV vaccine. HPV vaccine misinformation posts had a higher average “like” count than pro-vaccine posts, making them more likely to be seen by broader audiences [22]. Viewing pro-HPV vaccine content on social media ironically exposes parents to antivaccine rhetoric, as pro-HPV vaccine content attracts antivaccine responses [23].

Jennifer C Morgan, Sarah Badlis, Katharine J Head, Gregory Zimet, Joseph N Cappella, Melanie L Kornides

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e54657

Food Access in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Media Monitoring Study

Food Access in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Media Monitoring Study

According to a survey of Twitter users conducted by Pew Research Center in 2018, individuals of all races and genders use the platform; however, users tend to be “younger, more educated and more likely to be Democrats than general public” [11]. Furthermore, Pew noted that 80% of all tweets originate from only 10% of all users, as the median Twitter user posts only about twice per month [11].

Leah Butz, Charles Platkin, Jonathan Chin, Juan Pablo Chavez Salas, Ellie Serres, May May Leung

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e49520

Exploring the Use of Social Media for Activism by Mexican Nongovernmental Organizations Using Posts From the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign: Thematic Content Analysis

Exploring the Use of Social Media for Activism by Mexican Nongovernmental Organizations Using Posts From the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign: Thematic Content Analysis

NGOs have played a significant role in catalyzing hashtag feminist movements on GBV worldwide and in Mexico by engaging stakeholders and the general public through dialogue and community-building practices, mainly through Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter; X Corp) [21-29].

Marian Marian, Ramona L Pérez, Elizabeth Reed, Samantha Hurst, Rebecka Lundgren, Amanda C McClain, Kathryn M Barker

JMIR Infodemiology 2025;5:e67368

Infoveillance of COVID-19 Infections in Dentistry Using Platform X: Descriptive Study

Infoveillance of COVID-19 Infections in Dentistry Using Platform X: Descriptive Study

Among the different social media platforms, X (previously known as Twitter) is one of the most popular forms used for health care communication [11]. In the field of medicine, platform X (formerly known as Twitter) has been used as a source of social media data within the context of health care–related information [11]. X allows millions of users to send and receive “tweets” or short messages for free.

Alghalia Al-Mansoori, Ola Al Hayk, Sharifa Qassmi, Sarah M Aziz, Fatima Haouari, Tawanda Chivese, Faleh Tamimi, Alaa Daud

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e54650

Exploring Public Sentiment on the Repurposing of Ivermectin for COVID-19 Treatment: Cross-Sectional Study Using Twitter Data

Exploring Public Sentiment on the Repurposing of Ivermectin for COVID-19 Treatment: Cross-Sectional Study Using Twitter Data

Twitter (now X), a hub for real-time public discourse, has become a fertile ground for divergent views on COVID-19 treatment [4,5]. This sentiment analysis focuses on Twitter discussions about ivermectin, showing public opinion that, while not devoid of misinformation risks, these discussions offer an alternative lens to understand the societal pulse on this contentious topic [6].

Angga Prawira Kautsar, Rano Kurnia Sinuraya, Jurjen van der Schans, Maarten Jacobus Postma, Auliya A Suwantika

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e50536