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.