Table 1 Tweet inclusion and exclusion criteria
From: #Deathbedlive: the end-of-life trajectory, reflected in a cancer patient’s tweets
Inclusion criteria: • Tweets posted by @GrangerKate’s Twitter account • Original tweets, annotated re-tweets and personal responses posted between 0:00:00 (UTC) 1 January 2016 and 23:59:59 (UTC) 25 July 2016 • Tweets that were considered directly relevant to the terminal condition |
Exclusion criteria: • Tweets posted on other Twitter accounts • Simple re-tweets of other people’s postings (with no further annotation) • Tweets posted outside the timeframe indicated • Tweets that were considered not directly relevant to the condition, such as those associated with the “#hellomynameis” campaign, Kate Granger’s fundraising activities, her views on the NHS and politics as well as news media • Images or URLs embedded within tweets |