Table 5.
Sample tweets that were discovered through the trained classifier: tweet text, predicted category, and score.
| Category (score) | Tweet text |
| Need (0.85) | I’ve never been so excited to go to the doctor to get antibiotics |
| Need (0.83) | I hate doctors so much, I shouldn’t have to demand antibiotics ffs |
| Need (0.70) | Any of my local friends have antibiotics laying around they haven’t finished? Don’t have ins & can’t afford to go to the docr |
| Misuse (0.85) | Ive had stepthroat for a month and I will throw the biggest …… fit this doctors office has ever seen if they don’t give me antibiotics |
| Misuse (0.77) | I’m on antibiotics for this sinus infection which means no drinking. Guess what I’m doing? |
| Side Effects (0.70) | Common antibiotic may increase heart death risk URL |
| Side Effects (0.70) | I’ll never take an antibiotic before I go to sleep again, my body was itching all ……. night? |
| Side Effects (0.85) | @.... I am now. We found out that the antibiotic I was on causes sever motion sickness. Lol. I just can’t drive while I’m taking them. |
| Side Effects (0.95) | So sick I think I’ve turned green, never take antibiotics on an empty stomach. Learned my lesson. ?? |
| Advice/Information (0.70) | Bacteria can evolve a biological timer to survive antibiotic treatments – Medical News Today URL |
| Advice/Information (0.80) | UK says …… recalls batches of Indian-made antibiotic ???? |
| Advice/Information (0.91) | U.S. Congress urged to pass bill to speed development of antibiotics #Health care |