The Growth of Healthcare Conferences on Twitter

The Growth of Healthcare Conferences on Twitter. A dynamic visualization of about 2,500 healthcare hashtags and 220,000,000 health related tweets from Symplur.com's database. Yellow nodes symbolizes a healthcare conference hashtag, blue nodes symbolizes all other health hashtags. "So here we're looking at a visual representation of the all the hashtags in our database over a period of time beginning in October 2010. The yellow nodes are healthcare conferences and the blue represent all the other hashtags. In the beginning healthcare conferences were a minority. But over time they began grow. I think it became obvious to conference promoters that through organizing their conference around a specific hashtag they could extend the reach of their event. Now, 32 months later, healthcare conferences make up the largest portion of new hashtags." - @tmlfox (Tom Lee, Symplur)