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Review
. 2021;17(2):150-156.
doi: 10.2174/1573403X15666191107125304.

Social Media Use in Cardiovascular Imaging

Purvi Parwani  1 , James Lee  2 , Omar K Khalique  3 , Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci  4
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Review

Social Media Use in Cardiovascular Imaging

Purvi Parwani et al. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2021.

Abstract

Social Media is a rising influence in the global world of cardiovascular medicine, allowing for a dynamic approach to physician education, research dissemination and collaborative discussion. The visual nature of social media platforms, particularly Twitter, lends itself particularly well to the tremendous advances and stunning visuals of cardiac imaging. The hashtag "#cardiotwitter" provides around the clock, asynchronous, ubiquitous, free education. It allows connection among cardiac imagers across the world to share ideas and discuss contemporary issues pertaining to multimodality imaging. This review highlights the role of social media in advancing the practice of cardiac imaging and provides guidance on gaining visibility in the social media imaging community.

Keywords: #YesCCT; #echofirst; #whyCMR; Twitter; cardiac imaging; cardiotwitter; facebook; social media.

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Anatomy of a tweet: figure explaning the essential part of a tweet. (A higher resolution / colour version of this figure is available in the electronic copy of the article).
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A) Top ten influencers of commonly used cardiac imaging hashtags. B) Tweet Activity Trends of commonly used cardiac imaging hashtags. C) Global Reach of Social Media by country of users of the hashtag #Cardiotwitter and Tweet Activity Trends of commonly used cardiac imaging hashtags. An analysis of tweets, participants, and digital impressions of the most widely-used cardiology hashtags. *Registration date reflects the date the hashtag was registered with symplur.com. Individual hashtag data is from the registration date to access on August 8th 2019. †The total number of unique tweets since the hashtag was registered on symplur.com. ‡Impressions are computed by taking the number of times an account has tweeted multiplied by the account’s number of followers repeated for all accounts, then finally summed up. §The total number of times each photo, GIF, or video was shared. ^The total number of papers or links/URLs shared. Data from Symplur signals. (A higher resolution / colour version of this figure is available in the electronic copy of the article). *Imaging symbol graphic credit: Dr.Juan Lopez Mattei.
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Use of social media in cardiac imaging. (A higher resolution / colour version of this figure is available in the electronic copy of the article).
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