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.