Data Collection
The online microblogging platform Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/) was scanned on December 06, 2020 to identify tweets that concerned CLP and bullying. Twitter’s advanced search function was used for scanning using four keywords, while the term ‘cleft lip and palate’ was kept constant at each search. The selected keywords were ‘bully’, ‘bullying’, ‘bullied’ and ‘teased’.7 English was selected as the search language. The exclusion criteria were the identical tweets of the same user which were detected in different searches, unrelated tweets, non-English tweets, and tweets including unclear letters and words. Since only publicly available data were included in this study, ethics committee approval was not required. A total of 150 tweets posted between March 17, 2012 and November 21, 2020 that met the criteria were selected.