TABLE 1—
Summary of Twitter Analysis: Online Pharmacies Promoting Illegal Sale of Prescription Opioid Drugs, 2015
Drug Name | Total Tweets, No. | Most Correlated Tweets, No. | Relevant Tweets, % | Tweets With Links (Provided Tweet Is Relevant), % | Live Links, % | Distinct Links, No. |
Codeine | 431 625 | 874 | 48 | 68 | 3.1 | 2 |
Percocet | 75 215 | 410 | 69 | 99 | 0.3 | 1 |
Fentanyla | 28 711 | . . . | . . . | . . . | . . . | . . . |
Vicodin | 28 610 | 286 | 95 | 100 | 1.4 | 2 |
Oxycontin | 27 734 | 465 | 59 | 99 | 2.9 | 2 |
Oxycodone | 18 061 | 336 | 82 | 99 | 2.6 | 1 |
Hydrocodone | 9 981 | 282 | 93 | 87 | 10.0 | 3 |
We were not able to detect tweets correlated with illicit online pharmacy marketing through our Biterm Topic Model approach to content coding data.