Table 2.
Dissemination potential and professional group statistics during the study period.
| Professional group | Number of followers | Number following | Number of tweets | Information dissemination potential |
| American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP) (@AAFP) | 7546 | 298 | 2788 | 6,959,092 |
| American College Physicians (ACP) (@ACPinternists) | 5955 | 2023 | 2979 | 11,228,160 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (@AmerAcadPed) | 11,768 | 132 | 1184 | 14,496,559 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) (@AmerMedicalAssn) | 213,122 | 5729 | 7065 | 122,066,397 |