Background Recently, significant research effort has focused on using Twitter (and other
social media) to investigate mental health at the population-level. While there has been …

Background The rise of social media and microblogging platforms in recent years, in
conjunction with the development of techniques for the processing and analysis of “big …

Background Much research is being carried out using publicly available Twitter data in the
field of public health, but the types of research questions that these data are being used to …

Background. Researchers have used traditional databases to study public health for
decades. Less is known about the use of social media data sources, such as Twitter, for this …

Background The use of social media data to predict mental health outcomes has the
potential to allow for the continuous monitoring of mental health and well-being and provide …

Promoting health-related campaigns on Twitter has increasingly become a world-wide
choice to raise awareness and disseminate health information. Data retrieved from Twitter …

Social media (SM) offer huge potential for public health research, serving as a vehicle for
surveillance, delivery of health interventions, recruitment to trials, collection of data, and …

Background Use of the social media website Twitter is highly prevalent and has led to a
plethora of Web-based social and health-related data available for use by researchers. As …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review provides an overview of recent research which uses
social media data in the context of mental health. It also provides an overview of challenges …

This chapter provides an overview of the specific legal, ethical, and privacy issues that can
arise when conducting research using Twitter data. Existing literature is reviewed to inform …