Eating-disorder enthusiasts build a community on Twitter

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Twitter users who support eating disorders often group together and form like-minded networks, sharing content that promotes eating disorder lifestyles, according to a new study. 

So-called Pro-Eating Disorder (ED) communities have been documented elsewhere on the Internet, “so it wasn’t a huge surprise to find that Pro-ED was also active on Twitter,” said lead author Alina Arseniev-Koehler of the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute.