Table 2.
Dates with unusually high tweet count along with rationale for activity.
| Date | Tweet count | General topic | Sample of most frequent words | Sample tweet |
| July 2 | 11365 | Comments made by British PM regarding resistance | resistance (3411), pm (1610), cameron (1264), warns (1330), dark (965), ages (916) | Antibiotic resistance: Cameron warns of medical ‘dark ages’ URL #health #antibioticresistance #evolution |
| Sept 19 | 9489 | Executive action from US president on antibiotics | resistance (2342), obama (1394), bacteria (1112), order(946), plan(780), president (747) | RT @PublicHealth: New national strategy, presidential executive order take aim at antibiotic resistance: URL |
| Aug 19 | 9188 | Advertisement | antibiotics (4718), celphalexin (2657) | RT @...: Buy cephalexin URL |
| Sept 11 | 8589 | News about a bee-based alternative to antibiotics | antibiotics (5093), bacteria (830), honey (713), alternative (603) | RT @Independent: Bacteria found in honeybee stomachs could be used as alternative to antibiotics |
| Sept 18 | 8412 | Executive action from US president on antibiotics | resistance (2347), combat (1294), Obama (1070), bacteria (940), strategy (1050) | New Executive Actions to Combat Antibiotic Resistance and Protect Public Health: Today, the Obama admin … URL #obama |
| July 14 | 8340 | Advertisements | doxycycline (2229), health (1459), treating (1360), bronchitis (1358), | RT @...: Treating Acute Bronchitis and the Use of Antibiotics URL |
| Sept 30 | 8147 | Report that antibiotics increases risk for obesity | antibiotics (4394), obesity (2827), childhood (1356), study (946) | Antibiotics in infancy may be linked to childhood obesity: study URL |
| June 25 | 7871 | News breaks that the focus of the Longitude Prize will be antibiotic resistance | antibiotic (2242), resistance (1619), prize (1615), longitudeprize (1089) | RT @longitude_prize: The votes have been counted and the results are in – the challenge of Longitude Prize 2014 will be …antibiotics! #longi… |