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The Brain Tumor Social Media (#BTSM) Twitter [[hashtag]] was founded in February [[2012]] as a disease-specific hashtag for patients with a [[brain tumor]].

To understand #BTSM's role as a patient support system, Feliciano et al.  described user descriptors, growth, interaction, and content sharing.

They analyzed all tweets containing #BTSM from 2012 to 2018 using the Symplur Signals platform to obtain data and to describe Symplur-defined user categories, tweet content, and trends in use over time. They created a network plot with all publicly available retweets involving #BTSM in 2018 to visualize key stakeholders and their connections to other users.

From 2012 to 2018, 59,764 unique users participated in #BTSM, amassing 298,904 tweets. The yearly volume of #BTSM tweets increased by 264.57% from 16,394 in 2012 to 43,373 in 2018 with #BTSM constantly trending in the top 15 list of disease hashtags, as well the top 15 list of tweet chats. Patient advocates generated the most #BTSM tweets (33.13%), while advocacy groups, caregivers, doctors, and researchers generated 7.01%, 4.63%, 3.86%, and 3.37%, respectively. Physician use, although still low, has increased over time. The 2018 network plot of retweets including #BTSM identifies a number of key stakeholders from the patient advocate, patient organization, and medical researcher domains and reveals the extent of their reach to other users.

From its start in 2012, #BTSM has grown exponentially over time. They believe its growth suggests its potential as a global source of brain tumor information on Twitter for patients, advocates, patient organizations as well as health care professionals and researchers
((Feliciano JT, Salmi L, Blotner C, Hayden A, Nduom EK, Kwan BM, Katz MS, Claus EB. Brain Tumor Discussions on Twitter (#BTSM): Social Network Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Oct 8;22(10):e22005. doi: 10.2196/22005. PMID: 33030435.)).