Title
Saving lives using social media: Analysis of the role of twitter for personal blood donation requests and dissemination.
Abstract
•The disseminators on twitter retweet blood donation requests for dissemination.•On average, disseminators take 3.8h to forward a blood donation request.•On Sundays, disseminations take a maximum average delay of 4.7h.•Maximum disseminations take place during 10am and 4pm.•Most of the blood donation requests are required for cancer patients.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.tele.2017.01.010
Telematics and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social services,Social healthcare,Patient-centric social healthcare,Social media,Social media analytics,Twitter,Blood donations
Health care,Donation,Social media analytics,Internet privacy,Social media,Public relations,Computer science,Developing country,Followership,Personally identifiable information,Social Welfare
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
4
0736-5853
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.41
13
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rabeeh Abbasi113515.82
Onaiza Maqbool223010.78
Mubashar Mushtaq3708.81
Naif Radi Aljohani415927.35
Ali Daud531330.17
Jalal S. Alowibdi613413.61
basit shahzad7787.72