RESULTS
The percentage distributions of the tweets according to their sources
were presented in Figure 1. Most of the tweets were posted by a
layperson (76%), while the others were posted by the community (online
community pages that are related to CLP) (18.7%) and news (5.3%)
sources.
Figure 2 displays the percentage distribution of the themes of the
tweets. Nearly half of the tweets were categorized in the theme personal
experience of being bullied (43%), while the rest were identified in
the following themes: the parental experience of a child being bullied
(17%) -in which the family members of the bullying victim were
considered as parents-, criticism of bullying (17%), news about
bullying in CLP (14%), and social support against bullying (9%).
The percentage distribution of the tweet uploader status about CLP was
given in Figure 3. The tweets were distributed according to their
uploader status as CLP subjects (46%), irrelevant individuals (28%),
and parents of CLP subjects’ (26%). Figure 4 displays the word cloud of
all posts on Twitter about bullying in individuals with CLP.
The comparison of retweets and likes between negative, neutral, and
positive comments were shown in Table 1. Of the 150 tweets evaluated, 74
were identified as negative, while 25 were identified as neutral and 51
as positive. No significant differences were detected in retweet and
like numbers between negative, neutral, and positive comments (P> .05). Descriptive Tweets for each of the themes were
given in Table 2.