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Table 1 Labels defining the 14 clusters based on Twitter profiles

From: Enhancing engagement beyond the conference walls: analysis of Twitter use at #ICPIC2019 infection prevention and control conference

Final labels

Detail

Commentsa

Others

Advocates and politics

Biographies mainly expressing a stance for certain causes (racial, gender, politics, environmental…)

Characters

Non-English biographies or including special characters (that have not been filtered out)

Hobbies, families & life balance, spiritualityb

Biographies around personal interests with a strong focus on families, religion and hobbies

Time and place

Biographies mainly containing geo-temporal information, indicative for event, gatherings, conferences, congress, tourism…

Advertising

Advertising

Biographies suggestive for publicity, advertisements

Fintech–digital marketing

Fintech–digital marketing

Biographies suggestive of using novel technologies in innovation and private industries. More specific for fintech (bitcoin, cloud, blockchain), and digital marketing (social media, marketing)

Industries

Industries and manufacturers

Biographies representing industries delivering a product

Industry-related services

Biographies expressing a service often targeting industries. In this dataset, it has a strong focus on health care related industries, but also include human resources, consulting, education providers…

Media

Media and music

Biographies related to audio-visual content, including authors, publishers, bloggers, editors…

Patient support, foundation, advocacy and alternative therapies

Patient support, foundation, advocacy and alternative therapies

Biographies oriented to patient’s health, mainly using popular wording for diseases and health (disease, life, pain, chronic disease). Gather disease’s survivors, foundations or associations’ oriented to patient’s care, but also alternative therapies and caregivers

Clinical leaders and Healthcare Workers

Physicians

Biographies expressing specialized medical wording, also gather medical organizations

Clinical leaders and healthcare workers—healthcare quality improvement

Biographies expressing a will of healthcare quality improvement, with certain specializations or belonging to certain society/organizations

Academic research

Academic research

Biographies expressing wording specifics for academic research such as degrees. Has a strong focus on biology and microbiology (genomic, biology, bioinformatics)

Public and global health

Public and global health

Biographies expressing research or interests in public health concerns (sustainability, child care, equity, justice, climate)

  1. aWords might be represented in multiple labels. What allows the discrimination between these labels is the specific distribution of all words presents in biographies
  2. b2 clusters were merged, including “hobbies, families” and “life balance, spirituality”